I need to create an authorization system in Elixir, to do it I will generate a policy containing some permissions but in AST syntax and there will be many client consumers (in different languages JavaScript, Python, Elixir etc..) to verify that permissions (after transforming the ASTs to code). So …

Languages often don’t share even more basic things like supported datatypes. AST of languages is made up of datatypes supported by each individual language. Therefore ASTs usually are not sharable. E.g. elixir uses atoms extensively, which are a concept only available on the beam. There are some la…

[image] xgeek116: So my question us, is there some generic AST syntax for all programming languages There is not. Most languages have their own AST representations.

What I believe you are looking for is a platform agnostic way to represent the business logic, that is Authorisation rules, scopes and policy. Instead of inventing a language which might not be Turing complete, or would require training. You should have a look at the available options and ways it c…

Generating general AST syntax from Elixir app

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benwilson512 November 1, 2022, 6:41pm 2

There is not. Most languages have their own AST representations.