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Re: gccgo: A gcc frontend for Go, a new programming language
fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) writes:
> Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> writes:
>
>> [...] Go, a new experimental systems programming language designed
>> by a small group at Google. [...] The frontend is written in, yes,
>> C++. [...]
>
> Neat. Are there any plans to have a front-end written in its own
> language (and use the current C++ one only for bootstrapping)?
I don't personally have any plans to write the gcc frontend in Go,
though that would be clearly possible. There are vague plans for a
full compiler written in Go.
Note that there is another Go compiler, gccgo is really more of a
secondary one at this point.
Ian