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   Studio 8502 :verified: (mos_8502@oldbytes.space)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 05:25:12 JST Studio 8502 :verified:

   The Nim programming language compiles (optionally) to plain C. What other languages do that? Vala does, but it depends on GLib and GObject. What else?

   Why? Because the Turaco SDK compiles C99 -- so, in theory, any language that compiles to C99 should be possible to use with it.

   Oh, look, a big list of them: https://github.com/dbohdan/compilers-targeting-c

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     Studio 8502 :verified: (mos_8502@oldbytes.space)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 05:25:19 JST Studio 8502 :verified:

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     A good fit might be "nelua" which compiles its Lua-like language to plain C that can be fed to Calypsi to generate a 65816 .o file that can be linked to an executable.

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     Brian Swetland (swetland@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 05:25:22 JST Brian Swetland

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     @mos_8502 I'm doing this for my little systems language compiler project as a bootstrapping mechanism -- a minimal transpiler that generates C from a subset of the target language so I can then write the full compiler in itself.

     Previously I was writing a full compiler in C with the thought to do a mechanical translation step after, but as I started digging deeper into optimization, etc, I was unhappy with the complexity of both the code and the translation process. Thus this new approach.

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