LILAC is a Language to language Interoperability LAyer Compiler - with a goal that producing bindings across languages.
Interoperability across languages always sucks developers... (Especially, For managed languages such as Java, C#, Python)
For example, between C++ and C#:
- C++/CLI couldn't support modern C++ well
- In addition, C++/CLI doesn't support GNU/Linux
- P/Invoke couldn't support C++ well because of name mangling etc.
But, with power of LLVM, we hope that LILAC will generate bindings between C++ and C# ...or what else! (Actually, For the languages not supporting LLVM, We need to implement frontend for each languages)
Let's break down language barrier!
| Language | Backend | Frontend |
|---|---|---|
| C++ | ! | O |
| C# | O | ! |
- O : Implemented.
- ? : Not implemented, but planned.
- ! : Work in Progress
| Component | Tested on | Misc. |
|---|---|---|
| LLVM/Clang | LLVM 20 |
| Component | Tested on | Misc. |
|---|---|---|
| LLVM/Clang | LLVM 20 | |
| .NET | .NET 8 | Only C# frontend |