"Avoid writing your own code generator, linker, etc" There's a certain dearth of pluggable code generators and linkers. Well, not on GNU/Linux, where you get b

"Avoid writing your own code generator, linker, etc" There's a certain dearth of pluggable code generators and linkers. Well, not on GNU/Linux, where you get both as(1) and ld(1) practically out of the box, but making your compiler emit a PE/COFF on Windows is a pain. You either bring your own homemade codegen and linker or use LLVM, using Microsoft's ml64.exe and link.exe is incredibly impractical.