Development

These pages describe how Regulus is built and how to work on it.

Compiler phases

Regulus keeps compiler phases explicit:

Gleam source
  -> tree-sitter syntax tree
  -> AST
  -> name resolution
  -> type checking
  -> core IR
  -> WebAssembly

Useful references

• Testing
• Core IR
• Runtime representation
• Runtime memory
• Wasm backend and runtime
• JavaScript host ABI contract
• Project model