Compiler Codegen API

[XAMPPRocky]

Similar to #101 ideally we’d have a public codegen API that allows the compiler to generate languages other than Rust, and we’d have an API for generating ASN.1 notation back from Rust code so that compiler can be integrated with the derive macros to enable generating ASN.1 modules from derived code.

[jsatchell]

There is very limited compiler called asn1ate that generates python bindings for the pyasn1 library. See https://github.com/kimgr/asn1ate. This has ambitions to act as a more general purpose code generator.

There is a tool called mib2c, which is Perl script that ships as part of the net-snmp package, and takes a configuration file that allows it to generate a variety of outputs, not just C - I have used it to generate python. I realize that MIBs are not the same as ASN1, but there is a lot of overlap in functionality.

It is possible that there are some common abstractions that can be seen across these other projects.

[XAMPPRocky]

There is now a compiler available as a separate repo.