alt Hacker Newsi am firmly of the opinion that compiling to c is a better route than doing clever c tricks to sort of get what you want. the compiler can be pretty minimal and as you note it pays for itself.
i am firmly of the opinion that compiling to c is a better route than doing clever c tricks to sort of get what you want. the compiler can be pretty minimal and as you note it pays for itself.
There’s some prior work called CFront. It implements a superset of C that’s just an “increment”. I think it’s worth looking into, it might take off one day!