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I really wish I could write Zig for DOS, but LLVM can't seem to handle putting out 16-bit segmented memory binaries. There is some hope as Zig introduces more s

I really wish I could write Zig for DOS, but LLVM can't seem to handle putting out 16-bit segmented memory binaries. There is some hope as Zig introduces more support for alternative backends at least, but the point is that modern languages with cross compilers sadly eschew these historic platforms even while supporting esoteric embedded architectures.

hansor 6y ago
There is some work with LLVM for DOS (32bit): https://github.com/Zirias/clang-libdos https://github.com/Zirias/clang-libdos Still, I would like to not only cross-compile for DOS, but to develop/compile on the DOS machine itself. I think that it might be actually possible to port Nim or V-lang compilers into DOS platform. It would be perfect distraction-free development platform...