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Dmitry Stefantsov d6dfbda0d3 [cfe] Complete basic implementation of round-trip text serialization
The future non-basic version is to include the following:

  * adding missing annotations on nodes
  * adding URIs and file offsets to the nodes
  * adding nullability markers to types
  * stylistic changes
  * optimizations
  * better surface syntax
  * better error messages

Change-Id: If2fc51e4932d9043dd1719b766bd23ff4e0fc1ad
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/154001
Reviewed-by: Johnni Winther <johnniwinther@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Dmitry Stefantsov <dmitryas@google.com>
2020-07-13 14:13:55 +00:00
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2020-05-30 09:47:02 +00:00

Dart Kernel

Dart Kernel is a small high-level language derived from Dart. It is designed for use as an intermediate format for whole-program analysis and transformations, and to be consumed by codegen and execution backends.

The kernel language has an in-memory representation in Dart and can be serialized as binary or text.

Both the kernel language and its implementations are unstable and are under development.

This package contains the Dart part of the implementation and contains:

  • A transformable IR for the kernel language
  • Serialization of kernel code

Note: The APIs in this package are in an early state; developers should be careful about depending on this package. In particular, there is no semver contract for release versions of this package. Please depend directly on individual versions.

See ast.dart for the in-memory IR, or binary.md for a description of the binary format. For now, the textual format is very ad-hoc and cannot be parsed back in.