Re:Solod: Go can be a better C
by derekbsnider on Friday July 24, 2026 @06:44PM
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Oh wow, interesting project... I've also been working on a "better c" for a few years, and while it was originally a JIT language (using jitasm), I recently switch to MIR, but since I already had my own lexer/parser/etc stack, I ended up changing it to basically lower everything into a node_t compatible AST tree and handing that off directly to c2mir, bypassing its parser.
Maybe you're interested in collaborating? :)
Re:Solod: Go can be a better C
by convivialdingo on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @06:41PM
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That's incredible! I see you ran into many of the same MIR issues and limitations I did. I pulled several fork patches and wrote a thread local stack extension.
I'll definitely check it out and see what I could do. I added two compiler stages - a decent memory ptr ownership tracker and midopt compiler optimizer you could likely use without many changes that improved performance 35% over c2mir.
Started with the excellent MIR compiler, and I wrote much of the class/string/json/dict, exceptions and AI made the generics,ownership tracking, and safety checks/traps. Added some go
The memory model is mixed, I ended up using arenas for dictionaries and adding a full ownership checking / safety checking compiler stage.
It's purely for the joy of making something interesting.