C as an Intermediate Language (2012)

Re:C as an Intermediate Language (2012) by ilaksh on Sunday May 15, 2016 @05:26PM (#11702852)

If you guys are interested in languages that compile to C, the best programming language I know of compiles to C and it is called Nim.

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Re:C as an Intermediate Language (2012) by felixangell1024 on Sunday May 15, 2016 @05:36PM (#11702884)

EDIT0: It appears I was wrong, for some reason I was under the impression DMD produced C code. Ignore this comment! :)

Another language that is widely used by hobbyists and in production is D which, as far as I know, produces C code too.

EDIT: I should say there are a few D compilers, DMD, LDC, and some other one by GNU(?).

I think that DMD is the main compiler, but I could be wrong. LDC generates LLVM code.

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Re:C as an Intermediate Language (2012) by gmfawcett on Sunday May 15, 2016 @06:04PM (#11702982)

There are three compilers for D (DMD, GDC, LDC), but none of them uses C as an intermediary language.

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Re:C as an Intermediate Language (2012) by dom96 on Sunday May 15, 2016 @05:57PM (#11702959)

Are you sure? IIRC the main D compiler doesn't generate C.

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Re:C as an Intermediate Language (2012) by bjz_ on Sunday May 15, 2016 @06:24PM (#11703064)

Why on earth would LDC use C when it has access to LLVM IR?

Edit: A cursory look seems to suggest they do translate to IR: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/tree/master/ir

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