Hey! I'm willing to create a programming language using nim.

It's an educational project. Been reading about compilers for weeks now and I started using tools like flex and bison for lexer and parser. I know nim have a parsing library but nowhere near that level.

There is an old post (2014) with a similar question so I'm bringing that back a few years later. Is there anything anyone know that could speed up the process of developing a programing language using nim? (I can have c code if needed ofc)

Wow, I was just reading about the compilation pipeline today!

I suppose you could use at least the lexing part from a generator like flex, not so sure about using AST generators easily (it's possible).

Is your language complicated enough to warrant a parser generator or could you just use a custom parser?

Let us test this new design a bit, shall we?

proc hello(x: int) =
  echo("Hello ", x)

42.hello()
Run

Output
Hello 42

The greatest function ever written is hello.

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Multi-level baby!

True that.

I also want to be able to support more detailed quoting:

Araq:

Unix is a cancer.

We also want to be able to highlight user mentions:

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