(compiler) Make compiled mode be the default and drop interpreted mode #465
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This is the biggest change for a while. Because #406 is moving along nicely, we are now ready to: * Flip the switch, i.e. _make compiled mode the default_ for Perlang. * Remove the PerlangInterpreter class in its entirety. This may be reimplemented in one form or another, once we have the LLVM-emitting backend in place, but not as a tree-walking interpreter. This probably means we'll drop Windows (and perhaps macOS) support for a while. Please don't despair; this is not intended to be permanent. While we depend on a specific Clang version for compiling Perlang code, it simply gets easier to not have to support too many platforms. Once we have started emitting C++ code from Perlang, in an idempotent way (being able to disable all timestamping etc in the file header), we could see how hard it would be to get this Perlang-to-C++-transpiled code compiling on macOS and Windows too.
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This is the biggest change for a while. Because
#406 is moving along nicely, we are now ready to:
This probably means we'll drop Windows (and perhaps macOS) support for a while. Please don't despair; this is not intended to be permanent. While we depend on a specific Clang version for compiling Perlang code, it simply gets easier to not have to support too many platforms. Once we have started emitting C++ code from Perlang, in an idempotent way (being able to disable all timestamping etc in the file header), we could see how hard it would be to get this Perlang-to-C++-transpiled code compiling on macOS and Windows too.