alt Hacker NewsAh, so it's a so-called "high-level assembler" like PL/360 [0] for System/360 or PL-11 [1] for PDP-11? The problem with such languages is, well, C has killed them pretty thoroughly. You can take PCC, or LCC, or Tiny CC, and cobble a new instruction-emitter (for a relatively sane ISA) of decent quality in a week or so.
Hi Joker_vD, I really appreciate the comment and you’re mostly right—C was meant to be a portable assembly language that abstracts developers from machine instructions. Riscrithm isn’t trying to be a worse copy of C; it would be impossible for a single developer to match it. Instead, Riscrithm is meant to make writing RISC-V assembly simpler while maintaining a 1:1 relationship between Riscrithm lines and assembly lines. When writing a driver, you often need to use assembly, and with Riscrithm, you know exactly what each line does and how it’s translated. In contrast, with C/C++ or others, a single line of code can expand into many more assembly lines. This is just v1.0.0 (which I wrote in my free time this weekend), and v1.1.0 is coming soon with better features—I hope you’ll check it out! I should also apologize for the delay in my reply, but the time difference is quite the buzzkill!