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Re:The C3 Programming Language by maybewhenthesun on Saturday January 03, 2026 @04:58PM (#46482104)
>Adding new backends should be trivial.

Sounds like famous last words :-P

And I don't really know about faster once you start to handle all the edge cases that invariably crop up.

Point in case: gcc

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Re:The C3 Programming Language by fc417fc802 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @10:40PM (#46484649)
It's the classic pattern where you redefine the task as only 80% of the original.
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