choosing a target platform

[k1ngmang]

Ixion's core idea is built on a type system and optimizations. Sometimes, code-generation bugs can take up time that could be spent on more important aspects of the language. Since we don't have a large community to delegate responsibility to, I propose implementing a stable but simpler code-generation in a higher-level language. Java would be ideal; although it's a layer between Ixion and JVM, it would allow us to focus on the really important stuff. Some languages, like frege, do this: https://github.com/Frege/frege

[vyacheslavhere]

I think, it's a very hard choice between development experience and user experience. Ixion is a language with experimental features for the JVM community, which may cause a lot of overhead in code generation, no matter use you JVM directly or Java. It's better to do as more optimizations as we can, so i think you should think about other platforms as well.

[Pshimaf-Git]

And what do you yourself think about this?

[k1ngmang]

And what do you yourself think about this?

I don't see any difficulties in creating a compiler -> high-level language (golang, java), but if we can recruit enough people or even rewrite the compiler (in C, or the same golang), then I think we can consider something more serious, for example, llvm

[k1ngmang]

But in any case, the language will eventually switch to JVM, so perhaps this is extra work.