Information on how to create an Haxe backend

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I am try to learn in depth how Haxe backends are working and created, less documentation is available, and I think that knowing the internals will give the ability to solve many questions.

As well as I am thinking about a go generator, and a pascal generator…

I see that craxe (nim) is overriding a class BaseGenerator,
JavaScript is relying more on macros

Can anyone point to some existing documentation in this noseh

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If you would like guidance on a go generator for Haxe, I can help as I know how a lot of Go language features can be supported in Haxe (working on a project that compiles Go → Haxe)

I think the best documentation you will find is the talks by the lua target creator, I think there is a few other talks as well, at the moment this is the one I have found: "Shooting for the Moon: Haxe lands on Lua" by Justin Donaldson - YouTube

He said at one point that you can learn a lot by reading the commits of the Haxe lua target.

It seems if you want a very well supported Haxe target it’s best to write it in Ocaml inside the Haxe compiler.

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Yes, the video is very informative.

I’ve reviewed the GitHub commits seems to be a lot of work, not sure I could do it on my own.

In terms of expressions and operators I guess Golang is more flexible and will not have all issues he had with Lua.

I didn’t follow yet if the JavaScript target knows enough about primitive data types, or we will need to take some code from gencs.ml to make int float bool work properly.

I wonder if this mentioned approach will be easier to implement if not that pretty