Sample code (or general thoughts on direction)

[lojikil]

This project is super interesting to me, since I've worked on several compilers that target C output and worked with several others. I was curious if yous have even a sketch of what yous were thinking wrt the syntax and semantics of the language, even if they are rough outlines. Furthermore, I'd be curious to see if enough compatibility with swift will be retained to lift the compiler once it can produce C, or if it will need to be rewritten/ported from the current Swift implementation.

Thanks in advanced, this is super exciting!

[chrishulbert]

Thanks so much for your interest!! At this stage, the semantics and syntax boil down to 'as close as we can reasonably get to Swift' at this stage. I fully expect we'll end up with an incomplete subset though. Eg generics might not happen on first release, that kind of thing. Plus, we may take the liberty to add non-swift features that we deem interesting.

[chrishulbert]

Once we have implemented enough, we hope (dream?) to make this self-hosting. I imagine since we won't have a full swift implementation, we'll have to refactor the compiler somewhat to allow that to happen. (i assume that's what you meant by 'lift the compiler'?)
Fingers crossed we'll be able to implement a faithful-enough subset that the compiler will then compile with either Sonic or proper Swift.
Thanks for the kind words and your interest! :)

[chrishulbert]

I'll add some of this stuff to the readme :)