I mean, at the end of the day, if you really understand your language of choice, you know that it is jusf a bunch of fancy libraries and compiler tricks of top of C. So in my mind, I'm a fully evolved programmer in a language, when I could write anything I can write in that language in C instead.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 19 points 1 month ago (7 children)

only true if your language compiles to c. fortran peeps are safe.

[–] ratel@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I thought it compiles to LLVM intermediate representation and then to the machine code of the requested platform arch. Am I missing something?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

only if you design it using llvm. llvm is pretty new.

[–] ratel@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah ok I was referring to Rust specifically. Thanks!

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 month ago

yeah but rednax wasn't.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Fortran is from 1957, LLVM is from 2003. It's probably like C where there is a compiler tool chain that goes through LLVM like you describe and others that go directly to executables.

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