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Brad ArantandClaude Sonnet 5 d52ca61250 Add jetc: a prototype JET-to-C++ compiler, plus the Tag API it needed
jetc (JetCore/jetc/) compiles a subset of JET template syntax - literal
text, $[...]/#[...] variable output, <set>, <if>/<else>, <for>, <while> -
into a standalone C++ program that links against CoreUtils and the same
JetCore tag-class library jet-2.0 itself uses. The static tag/text
structure becomes real C++ control flow (if/for/while), resolved once at
build time instead of being re-scanned character-by-character from raw
source on every request and, for loop bodies, on every single iteration
(confirmed by reading Tag::parseContainer - it re-tokenizes its container
text from scratch every time it runs, since a tag's parse and its
execution are the same pass in this codebase). Anything genuinely
dynamic - variable values, expr/value comparisons, loop bounds - still
calls into the existing runtime (Tag::getVariable/resolveKeyword,
jet::Operand) exactly as the interpreter does; compiling doesn't try to
eliminate that; only the repeated re-parsing of the template's own shape.

A <if type="..."> or <while type="..."> comparison type is resolved to
its C++ operator once at compile time (type is a literal attribute value
in practice, not runtime data) instead of being re-checked against six
string constants on every evaluation.

Any tag jetc doesn't have a codegen rule for (mysql, sql, call, include,
a <set> with a container body, etc.) is captured as its exact raw source
span and handed to the existing interpreter at compiled-program runtime
via the new Tag::interpretSpan(), so an unsupported construct degrades
gracefully instead of failing to compile - a real, if narrower, program
rather than requiring full tag coverage up front.

Tag.h/.cpp: made assignVariable public (parallel to the already-public
getVariable - generated code needs a write path without being a Tag
subclass) and added interpretSpan() as the fallback's entry point into
parseContainer.

Verified live: two representative templates (jetc/demo.jet, an if/for/set
walkthrough; jetc/demo2.jet, a nested <if> inside a <for>, a <while> that
mutates and rereads its own condition variable across iterations, and a
fallback-interpreted <comment> tag) both compile, link, run standalone,
and produce byte-identical output to jet-2.0 running the same source.
Building and running jetc/demo2.jet's <while> loop surfaced a real,
previously-unknown MString bug (fixed separately, see CoreUtils commit
6e4e463) along with a separate, already-existing bug in __while.cpp's
value1/value2/type form (unrelated to this compiler, not fixed here -
see project memory).

jetc/build-compiled.sh builds the compiler and a given .jet file's
compiled binary in one step; jetc/demo.jet and demo2.jet are kept as
worked examples. Known limitations: <set> with a container body isn't
modeled (falls back to interpretation); a fallback-interpreted tag
nested inside compiled control flow uses the template's single top-level
scope for parent/local context rather than a faithful per-level chain,
which only matters for legacy tags that rely on nested "local" scoping.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-23 19:18:41 -07:00

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#include "JetParser.h"
#include "JetCodegen.h"
#include <fstream>
#include <sstream>
#include <iostream>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
if (argc < 3) {
std::cerr << "usage: jetc <input.jet> <output.cpp>" << std::endl;
return 1;
}
std::ifstream in(argv[1]);
if (!in) {
std::cerr << "jetc: cannot open " << argv[1] << std::endl;
return 1;
}
std::ostringstream ss;
ss << in.rdbuf();
std::string src = ss.str();
// Skip a leading shebang line, mirroring jet-2.0.cpp's own data.goeol()
// call (run before it constructs the top-level __jet tag) so a
// "#!../jet-2.0" first line doesn't get compiled in as literal output.
if (src.rfind("#!", 0) == 0) {
size_t nl = src.find('\n');
src = (nl == std::string::npos) ? std::string() : src.substr(nl + 1);
}
try {
jetc::Parser parser(src);
auto nodes = parser.parseNodes();
jetc::Codegen codegen;
std::string cpp = codegen.generate(nodes, std::string("compiled from ") + argv[1]);
std::ofstream outFile(argv[2]);
outFile << cpp;
outFile.close();
std::cout << "jetc: wrote " << argv[2] << std::endl;
} catch (std::exception &e) {
std::cerr << "jetc: " << e.what() << std::endl;
return 1;
}
return 0;
}