Introduction

• Who am I
• What do I want to do
• Why
• How to do it
• What has been done

Who am I

• A Pythonista
• A compiler enthusiast
• An undergraduate

What do I want to do

• Write an alternative DLR backend
• Steal DLR frontends
  • and the middle-end
• Profit

Why (for me)

• For the heck of it
• All cool kids do RIA

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Why this project?

There are several answers to this. First of all, it's a fun thing to work on. Second, it just seems obvious that something like this should exist.

-- IKVM.NET FAQ

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Thought: What would be truly interesting would be to create a compiler for the DLR -- take a DLR AST, combine it with the Phoenix toolkit, and generate assemblies out of it... if it's not there, it should be.

Why (for Mozilla)

• Silverlight evil
• Silverlight good
• JS insufficient

Why (continued)

• JS2
• Other languages on the web
• Language implementation is hard

How to do it

• Static compilation
  • needed anyway (for startup time)
  • to avoid reimplementing CLR
  • eval is problem

How to do it

• DynamicSite replacement
  • or not

How to do it

• Runtime
  • write in the language itself whenever possible
  • cannot avoid some primitives

What has been done

• Nothing

Future

• I am going back to school
• I will finally take a compiler course :)