Re:Solod: Go can be a better C
by ventana on Friday July 17, 2026 @04:26AM
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> A transpiler should translate all of the language's semantics, including resolving identifiers as symbols, and then choose legal names for them in the target language.
Yes, it should; but it also makes things much more difficult. This specific transpiler indeed builds an AST, but does not care about identifiers, just emitting them as is [1] (I hope I found the correct place in the code).
Yes, it should; but it also makes things much more difficult. This specific transpiler indeed builds an AST, but does not care about identifiers, just emitting them as is [1] (I hope I found the correct place in the code).
[1]: https://github.com/solod-dev/solod/blob/8485bc867ae0f0269d75...