> But it's hard to understand the benefit to writing a language frontend in C, generally speaking. The advantage of writing in C is that the language provides

> But it's hard to understand the benefit to writing a language frontend in C, generally speaking. The advantage of writing in C is that the language provides very little “high” level features. All you have is just functions and memory so you end up doing everything which is a laborious process but rewarding to the mind especially if you are someone who never did low level programming.