Who builds Prismio.
Prismio is developed by its creator, and contributions come in through GitHub and Discord. This page says who that is, what exists in 0.1, and where help is most useful.
Join DiscordSaksham Jaiswal
Creator and lead compiler architect
Saksham created Prismio and wrote its self-hosted compiler, the Adaptive Inference Framework (AIF), and the LLVM 23 backend. The language grew out of wanting developer speed and predictable latency in the same tool.
The work centres on compiler-directed memory placement and escape analysis, with the compiler explaining its decisions rather than hiding them.
Where the work is.
Every part of the toolchain is written and maintained by one person today. This is what exists in 0.1 and what doesn't, which is also where outside contributions help most.
- Frontend
- What existsSelf-hosted parser and semantic analysis, generics with monomorphization, and diagnostics with source spans.
- What's missingDiagnostic codes are not stable yet.
- Adaptive Inference Framework (AIF)
- What existsAllocation sites are classified into stack, region, unique, reference-counted, and cycle-aware storage, with
--whyto explain each choice. - What's missingExperimental. The meaning of each tier can still change.
- LLVM backend
- What existsTyped AST lowered to LLVM 23 IR, native linking,
-gDWARF, cross-compilation, and a JIT. - What's missingNo mobile toolchains.
- Runtime and standard library
- What existsNative threads, typed
Channel<T>,Vec<T>,Map<K, V>, and file I/O. - What's missingNo async, atomics, mutexes, or sets and queues yet.
- Tooling
- What existsThe
prismioCLI and the UMS manifest, with a lockfile and local path dependencies. - What's missingNo package registry, formatter, linter, or language server.
- Benchmarks
- What existsDifferential benchmarks of identical algorithms against C++ and Rust, reported as medians.
- What's missingCoverage is limited to the workloads written so far.
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