After the Fosdem presentation, the GitHub archive got 40+ followers, so I think that part was succesfull. I wanted to get more functionaly in as soon as possible after that. The biggest feature that entered the stage was code analysis; checking for errors/warnings in the code. This part really worked out well I think. It's in no way finished, but the basis is there. I was able to re-use a lot of Clang functionality for this (Great job guys!). Additionally there have been many minor changes (changing the package operator from :: to . (dot), etc). The next big thing will be type checking (eg int a = "hello";) and after that the real code-generation can begin. I haven't looked into LLVM IR code generation beyond a few hello-worlds, so any help translating the AST to the LLVM IR code is welcome. If you're interested, follow the forum or the Git archive.

My proposal for a 15 minute lightningtalk at Fosdem '13 has been accepted! Because I want to have this website and Git archive ready by then, I have some work to do. I also started working even more on C2 since then. The current state of it is than it parses almost the full syntax and translates a subset into the AST (Abstract Syntax Tree). I just started on code generation. For those wanting to read more about the language, I've added a PDF design document (in the top bar under Design). Hopefully my lightning-talk will spark the interest of some fellow developers...

(more info on FOSDEM '13 can be found here)

In the beginning of June 2012, I was looking (as always) for a new pet-project. I wanted to create my own compiler for a long time, but the effort always seemed to big and the goal never really worthy. Then I got an idea to improve C, because I really like that language, but found the header files bothersome. After writing some compiler mockups of my own, I found out that parsing C is really hard. So I started playing around with llvm/clang and suddenly, and the whole effort of writing a compiler looked much easier. So I started modifying clang to re-use its Lexer and C2 was born.