> Why not directly compile to CIL? This was asked and answered on reddit [0]: > Exactly, there's no way that we could optimize the IL better than the dotnet c

> Why not directly compile to CIL? This was asked and answered on reddit [0]: > Exactly, there's no way that we could optimize the IL better than the dotnet compiler, so we chose to emit C# text and let the dotnet compiler do the optimization for us. > This also makes it a lot simpler to generate code, without having to deal with the lower level IL. [0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/1074jdj/otterkit_a_new_free_and_open_source_cobol_to_c/j3l5p68/ https://old.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/1074jdj/otterkit_a_...