Add link to Cranelift Examples

[simvux]

#cranelift > Cranelift Examples Repository

cranelift-examples is an attempt at documenting the various (often higher-level) questions people tend to have when learning to use Cranelift as a compiler backend. The goal is to have examples that address very specific topics in a predictable format with lots of comments that not only explain what the Cranelift code does, but also explains the topic more broadly.

[cfallin]

Thanks for the PR and for putting together these examples! A suggested change to wording below but otherwise I'm happy to see this merged in.

[cfallin]

Let's make this a little more explicit about the third-party maintenance -- perhaps something like "For various examples of how to use Cranelift to accomplish common compiler tasks, in addition to the above, @simvux maintains a [Cranelift Examples] repository." ?

[simvux]

Good point!

Although not sure about the wording. "in addition to above" could be misinterpreted as me maintaining the JIT demo.

[cfallin]

Ah, sure, I had just meant to indicate that it's another set of examples, but no need for that phrase I suppose.

[simvux]

How about just

For various examples of how to use Cranelift to accomplish common compiler
tasks, see the [Cranelift Examples] repository maintained by @simvux.

[cfallin]

Sounds good!

[cfallin]

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[pchickey]

Thanks @simvux for helping show more folks how to use cranelift. If your project grows to have more contributors and you'd like to contribute these examples to the bytecode alliance, you could consider making a proposal in bytecodealliance/governance (like this one) to shift the project over here and make it more official. The most important bar to reach there, in my opinion, is the requirement for a Sustainable Contributor Base, see that section of the proposal. You may also want to connect with the sig-docs folks on the Bytecode Alliance zulip.