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Re:About V, the language Volt is written in by coldtea on Thursday February 07, 2019 @04:48AM (#19104136)
Yeah, but no language of the ones the parent mentioned has a non-toy, non-personal-project alternative compiler.

Perhaps only Golang (go and go-gcc).

For all others, everybody uses the standard compiler. Even in Python, PyPy is not even 10% of the users.

Whereas in C/C++ and other such older languages there are several implementation (MS, GCC, LLVM, Borland, Intel) with strong uptake and strong communities/companies behind them.

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Re:About V, the language Volt is written in by nicoburns on Thursday February 07, 2019 @05:46AM (#19104328)
JavaScript isn't quite as new as those listed, but it has at least 5 or 6 implementations.
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Re:About V, the language Volt is written in by coldtea on Thursday February 07, 2019 @05:53AM (#19104354)
Yeah, JS too.
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Re:About V, the language Volt is written in by sacado2 on Friday February 08, 2019 @08:55AM (#19114086)
Yes, go has a formal specification, which not only opens the possibility for alternative implementations, but, more importantly, allows for the development of tools like linters.

It's way harder to develop tooling for a language which is only defined as "what its compiler can compile".

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