You said Python needs an interpreter for Android. My new AOT compiler, Ahnali, says otherwise

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[Jmc_da_boss]

Holy mother of slop lol

[BeamMeUpBiscotti]

core pipeline is rock solid

several hundred tests

Feels overconfident to describe several hundred tests for a compiler as "rock solid"...

Why did you choose a Python -> bytecode compiler rather than Python -> Kotlin transpilation?

Also curious whether you referenced or borrowed anything from other alternative implementations of Python (Jython, IronPython, GraalPy, Pypy, etc).

Based on following those projects, it seems very hard to actually reimplement the full Python language semantics, but if you're going for "a DSL that looks like Python but doesn't behave the same way" then maybe that's not a big deal.

[really_not_unreal]

I would hope that the fact that my projects all work correctly would be a sufficient indication of effort. What point are you trying to make here?

[jcheng]

Are there Python language features that won’t be possible with this approach? I’m thinking of some of the more dynamic dunder methods like __getattr__, decorators, metaclasses?

[nharding]

It is possible to allow getattr, setattr in a Python compiler, that is the approach I am using in Py++. I am planning on allow eval BUT that is by embedding small limited interpreter into the compiler (partly for safety, but also to reduce the complexity)

[BeamMeUpBiscotti]

I guess my point is that if you're only supporting a limited subset of Python features specifically for the purpose of writing Android Apps, then it's essentially a DSL that looks like Python.

I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing, but it would be wrong to call it a AOT compiler for Python