My Experience Working With Polyglot (Extensible Compiler Framework)

1 · Danny Yang · July 15, 2020, midnight
Say you want to create a new programming language, and you want it to have garbage collection, advanced object-oriented features, etc. but don’t want to go through the trouble of implementing those features in your compiler from scratch. In fact, the more you think about it, the more your idea sounds like “Java, but with X”. Well luckily for you, there exists the Polyglot Extensible Compiler Framework, which is a Java 7 compiler that can be modified to add additional language features or change...