Show HN: Java to PHP Compiler

7 pointsby eridalvor 12 Jahren3 comments

I had this crazy idea like some years ago.. I wasn't expecting it be factible, and there's still some semantic problems with this approach

Anyways, the whole idea was to take some java source, generate an AST, and output it back as syntactically correct PHP.

why? 50% fun + 50% exploration

So I have this really basic compiler, which can roughly output its own code; what's still missing?

    - static vs instance detection (-> vs ::)
    - class' properties
    - method visibility
    - enums
    - inner types
    - annonymous classes
    - dealing with method overriding

There's a huge gap in the semantic area (eg: String.format vs sprintf) that is way out of scope for this hack.

Source: https://gist.github.com/eridal/a850a8a665a255b74d2c

3 comments

smilepet_26vor 12 Jahren

Great work, it looks awesome.

skibzvor 12 Jahren

why have you not put it in a regular repo, yet? by the looks of it, this thing is something far beyond a mere 'gist' :P

freefouranvor 12 Jahren

Interesting idea, you should clean it up into multiple files and put it on an actual repository. If you compiled all of Java's libraries, would you be able to self host the trans-compiler?