The role of femtolisp in Julia?

[ihnorton]

@abhi18av

And apart from the source is there any blog/article you know of that’d help me distinguish various aspects of the compiler system.

http://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/#devdocs

@abhi18av

at which layer does one need to work on to create such extensions.

All of them.

@abhi18av

Does femtolisp only translates the julia surface syntax to this pseudo-typed-scheme syntax

Yes.

@abhi18av

I see that the base is defined in Julia itself so what exactly does the C/C++ part does?

Among other things: i/o primitives, memory allocation/gc, JIT compile to machine code via LLVM.

See also:

Examining an older and simpler version of Julia

I haven’t been around quite that long, but here are a few interesting points to look at: the first 10-20 commits: basic parser beginning of codegen: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/17f383fec059f beginning of dlopen / ccall support: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/18f456233b280f beginning of ast translation to C: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/89247a6bf2eeb beginning of interpreter: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/6c2b43c2b3e2986b You can get a nice…