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Re: gccgo: A gcc frontend for Go, a new programming language
Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net> writes:
> BTW, I understood perhaps wrongly that Ian Taylor seems to believe
> that gccgo has not much future, and that most of the software written
> in Go (the Google niche language) could be compiled by something which
> is not GCC based.
I certainly hope that gccgo has a future. I wouldn't have spent so
much time on it otherwise. It generates better code than the other Go
compiler.
I don't personally see any particular advantage to worrying about
writing new frontends as plugins. I think plugins have specific very
useful goals, but I don't think that new frontends are one of them.
Ian