C++ to Haxe Compiler

[Ashiq A.]

Hi,

Has anyone entertained the thought of writing a C++-to-Haxe compiler?

Take a look at Emscripten. It's a C++ to JS compiler, so you get things like SQLite running in-browser (which is pretty awesome).

I imagine if a C++-to-Haxe compiler existed, it could be sold as "well convert your code to Haxe and immediately you can run it in-browser (Flash), on mobile (Android via Lime), etc." which seems like a pretty big thing.

--Ashiq

[Juraj Kirchheim]

Given that C++ already has an LLVM frontend, I'm not sure how this level of indirection helps. You can run C++ on Flash with Alchemy, in the browser with Emscripten and on mobile (with native code) as well.

A decent C++ to Haxe converter would be interesting, but I think in general C++ code cannot really be translated to readable Haxe code ;)

Best,

Juraj

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[Hugh]

You could probably write a parser for the emscripten output reasonably easily - but as Juraj says, it's not going to look great - a bunch of functions that act on a global byte-array.  Still, might be interesting.

[Ashiq A.]

Like other Haxe code, I don't expect the generated code to be useful. I expect the end-result to be useful (eg. SQLite in Flash).

Maybe it's a good academic/weekend exercise for someone to try if they're interested.

[Cristian Baluta]

Seems you're the only one interested

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[Andy Green]

I have already written universal-transpiler, which compiles a small subset of C++ into Haxe and several other languages.