Developer Boisy Gene Pitre has created a BASIC09 front-end for LLVM called 'basic09c', capable of lexing and parsing BASIC09 code, building an AST, performing semantic checks, and emitting LLVM IR. BASIC09 is a structured BASIC dialect from the 1980s used on OS-9/6809 and Tandy Color Computer systems. The goal is to preserve and compile existing BASIC09 programs by targeting modern LLVM backends. However, LLVM developers Eli Friedman and Nikita Popov indicated the project won't be merged into the main LLVM codebase, suggesting it live as an independent project that links to LLVM as a library.
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