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by islandert 705 days ago
Would the JVM ecosystem almost be a working example of this? Since there are a variety of languages with editor integration that all compile down to the same byte code, it feels pretty close to what you’re describing.
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I believe that JVM bytecode is too low level for a source format. At the very least you would need to preserve some form of comments. Also I think JVM locals lose their names during compilation.
The JVM languages are pretty damn close!
Unison would fit here