So. Progress is slow but steady. Progress so far: provisional Unicode lexer (doesn't handle all cases), provisional parser (doesn't handle operator precedence right), provisional semantics checker (doesn't check all invariants), basic support for desugaring (I am now implementing all cases).
Desugaring is simple. I am going to desugar guarded rewrites, which will make them very expensive but I don't think it's really worth supporting them at this stage, or ever. The motto will be: You can use guards but please don't if you can avoid them.
I am going to drop LLVM support and will write a rationale about that in the next post.
I am implementing in C++, not a bad choice but I somewhat regret having dropped Java (bytecode) support.
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