Hello, I'm thinking about writing a compiler plugin to transpile kotlin to another language, but mos...

# compiler

[Xavier F. Gouchet]

Hello, I'm thinking about writing a compiler plugin to transpile kotlin to another language, but most tutorials and videos I find around that are several years old. Is there a more recent documentation, maybe more specifically around the code generation step, i.e. converting IR into a custom language?

[Xavier F. Gouchet]

Alternatively, is the IR to JS compiler plugin open sourced somewhere?

[ephemient]

it's all open source but it's not set up for plugging in other frontends or backend easily

[ephemient]

#python has some work to compile Kotlin to Python, which you might be interested in for your target

[Xavier F. Gouchet]

Oh nice I'll go take a look

[Xavier F. Gouchet]

🙏 🙏

[dmitriy.novozhilov]

Alternatively, is the IR to JS compiler plugin open sourced somewhere?

It is not a compiler plugin, it's a compiler backend
You can find sources in a main Kotlin repo

[Xavier F. Gouchet]

Oh indeed wrong wording

[Big Chungus]

Why not just use #ksp since you're only generating stuff and not manipulating IR. The docs nd api for ksp are much easier to work with.

[Xavier F. Gouchet]

Yes I saw a project that does that with python, I'll going to look in this direction

[Xavier F. Gouchet]

@Big Chungus ksp is not a good solution, as it doesn't gove me access to the code itself. I can access Class delcarations, function signatures and fields types, but I don't have access to statements, loops etc…

[Big Chungus]

Ah, yes. Didn't think of that.