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2549 :: Is NLVM the future of Nim?

• Atlas (orginal) [2016-09-20T23:55:49+02:00] view original

  In the Nim website, it says "Native code generation (currently via compilation to C)...", so does that mean Nim developers want and/or interested to remove the C (and other intermediate languages) in the compilation levels?

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• Krux02 (orginal) [2016-09-21T01:04:16+02:00] view original

  I would say it's not a priority. There is a working C backend, and as long as the LLVM backend does not provide any substantial advantage over C code generation I would say the llvm pipeline is just an alternative. Also when the llvm pieline is the only pipeline nim will be limited to the platforms supported by LLVM which is a subset of languages that are supported with a c compiler.

  So I wouldn't see this happening in the near future, but when there is an ambitious community member, it might happen.

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• bpr (orginal) [2016-09-21T01:30:49+02:00] view original

  nlvm is an exciting development for Nim, and I hope one day it is like LDC is for D, but C has great reach. Ideally there would be multiple backends; why remove compilation targets? Even if LLVM target generated faster code (for example) there aren't as many backends as for C.

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