Tracking issue for "Compiler walkthrough" section

[camelid]

(name is to-be-bikeshedded)

cc https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/196385-t-compiler.2Fwg-rustc-dev-guide/topic/planning.20meeting.202021.2E02.2E18

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• Implement Allow pretty printing the AST/HIR rust-playground#502 [@jyn514]
  • AST: Add support for -Zunpretty=ast-tree rust-playground#722
  • HIR: Add support for -Zunpretty=hir rust-playground#683
• Implement -Z unpretty={ast-tree,thir-tree} [@LeSeulArtichaut]
  • AST: Add -Z unpretty flags for the AST rust#82304
  • THIR: Add -Z unpretty flag for the THIR rust#82860
• Implement (an MVP of) -Z dump-internal-data [@camelid]

[camelid]

As we discussed in the meeting, we're going to show each pass of the compiler,
each intermediate representation (before & after pass), and some internal data
structures (like TyCtxt).

However, we're going to start with just showing tokens, AST, and HIR (with no
internal data structures) going through the passes of lex, parse, resolve, and
macro-expand, which are actually interleaved together:

lex -> (parse <-> resolve <-> expand)

We're going to start with this example code (I modified it
slightly to use @LeSeulArtichaut's name suggestion, and to change String to
&str, which is more idiomatic and will let us show lifetimes in action):

fn is_awesome(name: &str) -> bool {
    matches!(name, "Rust" | "Ferris")
}

(See the Zulip discussion for details on why we chose this example.)

[camelid]

• Implement (an MVP of) -Z dump-internal-data [@camelid]

What do you think would be a good MVP for -Z dump-internal-data? Maybe print the type of everything in the program?

[LeSeulArtichaut]

"Internal data" is very broad. Let's maybe try to make a list of all the things we would like to be able to dump?

[camelid]

Sounds like a good idea :)

[LeSeulArtichaut]

Opened https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/196385-t-compiler.2Fwg-rustc-dev-guide/topic/-Z.20dump-internal-data for discussion about -Z dump-internal-data

[LorrensP-2158466]

Hi, I just stumbled on this issue because i wanted to look at the ast in rust playground and noticed that this looks forgotten. -Zunpretty=ast is implemented: rust-lang/rust#82304, so i think the ast option can be looked at again.

Is it possible that rust-lang/rust-playground#722 can be looked at and possibly merged? It is 3 years ago, so it may be possible that someone needs to implement it again.
I don't know the specifics of this repo but if allowed and needed i can try to implement it.