grin/Design.md

Compiler goals

• keep mapping between source code and machine code
• debugging
  • step by step execution
  • breakpoints
  • observe values/thunks/nodes at runtime
• collect statistics at runtime
• nice UI (reusing exisiting tools; js libs, etc)

Other

• parallel compilation
• local and global optimizer

Technology

• simple AST + shape functor + recursion-schemes
• simple name handling
• JIT backend as a library (e.g. monad transformer?)