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

[Ian Lance Taylor]

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