Thinking of using TypeScript compiler API to generate AST nodes from my language, Kopi

[Mike Austin]

I like the syntax of my language, Kopi, but there is no type-checking and I don't want to have to write that :) It's also slower since it has it's own VM instead of being converted source to source.

GitHub - growvv/ts-compiler-api-examples: A collection of examples demonstrating how to use `ts.factory` in the TypeScript Compiler API to programmatically create, modify, and analyze TypeScript AST nodes for tasks like code generation, transformation, and static analysis.

I just found how to generate TypeScrpt AST nodes programatilly, which should make it much, much easier to translate source without having to do clunky things.

[Raoul Duke]

oh! i kind of would like that, too. i feel sad i didn't see good stable ast apis when i looked? i do wish that any mainstream language should, ethically, expose a well maintained ast api. 

(currently generating .ts syntax and then calling tsc. sort of silly vs. going straight to AST. although for T2 i think maybe it is a feature to go via .ts that can be inspected. e.g. T2 could just be used for macros for TS projects.  https://github.com/raould/t2lang)