Hi,
I am senior student at Tashkent University of Information Technologies
and I am highly interested in programming language design. I want to
develop Python front-end for HLVM as a part of LLVM participation in
Google Summer of Code project.
I am in long love with Python programming language for its simplicity
and effectiveness. Last year I noticed ShedSkin Python to C++
translator among SoC projects and idea of Python high-performance
compiler fascinated me. Later I learned about LLVM compiler
infrastructure project. It was looking as a great target for such
compiler offering much more flexibility than C without pain of dealing
with assembly/machine code generation. (Well, folks from PyPy were
thinking in the same direction much earlier.) And finally I found the
related HLVM project aiming to help in exactly what I want to do. Not
as robust as LLVM at that time but very promising.
(I hope it's all ok to suggest an HLVM-related project as I have
already seen an interest in such project here in this mail-list.)
HLVM roadmap sets Python support after Ruby and Scheme ones, but I
think this is not essential. Python "pros":
— I know it better.
— It's in wider use today, particularly in desktop applications where
HLVM back-end features (high performance, lesser code size) will be
more useful.
— It's tightly related with my BS thesis, so I'll start working
whether or not application will be accepted, but having Google to pay
for it will be really nice 
Chris Lattner in his recent presentation set an ambitious goal of
developing common representation and type inference infrastructure for
dynamic languages. I want to see HLVM evolving into such framework and
will be very glad to make my own contribution on this.
Sorry for coming up with this a bit late but it's better than never.
Hi Rooslan,
Hi,
I am senior student at Tashkent University of Information Technologies
and I am highly interested in programming language design. I want to
develop Python front-end for HLVM as a part of LLVM participation in
Google Summer of Code project.
Sounds good.
I am in long love with Python programming language for its simplicity
and effectiveness. Last year I noticed ShedSkin Python to C++
translator among SoC projects and idea of Python high-performance
compiler fascinated me. Later I learned about LLVM compiler
infrastructure project. It was looking as a great target for such
compiler offering much more flexibility than C without pain of dealing
with assembly/machine code generation. (Well, folks from PyPy were
thinking in the same direction much earlier.) And finally I found the
related HLVM project aiming to help in exactly what I want to do. Not
as robust as LLVM at that time but very promising.
Work will be starting again on HLVM in a few weeks.
(I hope it's all ok to suggest an HLVM-related project as I have
already seen an interest in such project here in this mail-list.)
Yes, that's fine.
HLVM roadmap sets Python support after Ruby and Scheme ones, but I
think this is not essential.
It is not. When the roadmap was designed, that was the interest of the
parties involved. The actual work will get done in the order that those
contributing want it to get done. I have no issue with putting Python
first.
Python "pros":
— I know it better.
— It's in wider use today, particularly in desktop applications where
HLVM back-end features (high performance, lesser code size) will be
more useful.
— It's tightly related with my BS thesis, so I'll start working
whether or not application will be accepted, but having Google to pay
for it will be really nice
All good reasons
Chris Lattner in his recent presentation set an ambitious goal of
developing common representation and type inference infrastructure for
dynamic languages. I want to see HLVM evolving into such framework and
will be very glad to make my own contribution on this.
I would like to see this too.
Sorry for coming up with this a bit late but it's better than never.
No worries.
Your proposal will be considered.
Thanks for submitting it!
Best Regards,
Reid.