[webkit-dev] Rewriting binding code generator, maybe?

[Kentaro Hara]

>
> I know some folks in our TOK office have expressed strong interest
> in re-writing it in python for Blink.


Yeah, I'm planning (but in low priority) to rewrite it in Python after
cleaning up IDLs and code generators. The difficulty is that
CodeGenerator*.pm are not the only target for rewriting. We also have to
rewrite IDLParser.pm (2500 lines) and all other related Perl scripts at a
breath. Although we can proceed with the work incrementally by defining
intermediate data structure between Python and Perl, it will anyway be a
huge amount of work.



On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:

> I know some folks in our TOK office have expressed strong interest in
> re-writing it in python for Blink.  Perhaps there is an opportunity
> for some x-project collaboration here.
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can we rewrite CodeGenerator*.pm in Ruby or Python?  I feel that the
> current
> > code is very hard to understand and hack on.  In particular we have
> > CodeGenerator.pm and CodeGeneratorJS.pm (CodeGeneratorV8.pm has been
> > removed), and we need to merge them anyway.
> >
> > I've seen many people expressing their inability to improve the binding
> code
> > because of its being written in Perl.
> >
> > I'm not necessarily volunteering to do the work myself at this moment
> but I
> > wanted to see if there is any interest in this idea or not.
> >
> > - R. Niwa
> >
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