With the JVM and JS supported and native coming up, undoubtedly a solid abstraction has been building. I have quickly perused the code and see that there is an IR among other abstractions.
I might want to target a custom backend/runtime. What is the stability of the abstraction and is it feasible for me to follow kotlin/js at master · JetBrains/kotlin · GitHub as a blueprint of the APIs to touch for my own “transpiler”?
Just of curiosity what would that be?
BTW js/ is ~140Ksloc with tests not a small project, and it is relatively simple transform
I would guess nobody tested actual dependency separation for other parts of project and adding more backends roots into main code base. So +~350Ksloc with tests. My raw estimate for adding new target with js level complexity would be ~250Ksloc which is 5-10man years worth of work.
I was just gonna see about transpiling to Go or something to see if I could get cross use. I’ve done it w/ low level JVM bytecodes as a pet project, but curious how well Kotlin’s IR will map. It’s more exploratory than anything at this point.
The IR is very much work in progress and is not used by either the JVM or the JS backend. The stability of the abstraction is therefore non-existent.