gccgo: A gcc frontend for Go, a new programming language

[Ian Lance Taylor]

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