Add example with a naive Clojure->Rust transpiler #91
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- Can create working rust code for hello_world.clj - Generated code for strings.clj compiles but fails at runtime - Most notably the IFn values are currently not supported
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This is something I hashed out in a couple of hours. The idea is to somehow create a rust binary from a clojure source file that embeds the parsed clojure data structures and then "eval"s it. This may be a completely stupid idea as I do not know if this will translate well for all the clojure constructs.
The transpiler currently creates "working" rust code for
examples/hello_world.clj. It generates valid Rust forexamples/strings.cljbut the program fails at runtime. To run the hello world example:I also updated a couple of macros to use
$crateinstead ofcratein its module paths.Maybe just embedding the source directly as a string inside the binary is a far better idea, but then that's not really transpiling, is it?