Re:C to Go translation tool supporting Go toolchain migration
by dsymonds on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @02:49AM
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That's been proposed, but it won't happen. There's too many edge cases, and it only works on the Go compiler because it has a particularly constrained style and rsc can make the relevant hacks as a one-off effort.
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Re:C to Go translation tool supporting Go toolchain migration
by marco2357 on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @09:02AM
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Why not? There's not that much of a difference between translating C to assembler or a high level language like Java/C#/Go. The main challenge is to make the code readable.
But basically someone just has to sit down and do it right.