Technical Design and Architecture

[thescientist13]

Coming in new to this kind of work, I wanted to start this discussion to track some of the potential refactoring and architectural changes I could / would like to make with WCC as it grows, in particular like with the unintended side-effects of having to fix things like #70 and introducing features like #73.

1. Currently everything is in one file. Would be good to break it up
2. How to better handle "global" variables like definitions or string that start to run into issue when the memory / process is shared, like when running mocha tests in parallel
3. A lot of operations are duplicated from method to method that read from the filesystem like getTagName, registerDependencies. It might make more sense to dual purpose all these methods to at least accept an existing tree or module contents, and then fallback to loading the file
4. General terminology / architecture for compilers in general. Reading some books on this now ([1], [2]), so hope this will have a meaningful influence