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Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by jpfr on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @09:46AM (#22865868)
Quite a few new languages generate C code for the “backend” of their compiler. For example ATS and the ZZ language.

This helps bringing these languages to embedded targets with closed toolchains (with an existing C compiler).

Will there be developments to use a subset of C as a “portable assembly” in a standard way? Like there is WebAssembly for JavaScript.

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Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by msebor on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @09:59AM (#22866039)
That doesn't seem likely. There have been no proposals for anything like it and there is a general resistance to subsetting either C or C++ (the exception being making support for new features optional).
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