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>soup to nuts compiler Any chance you can explain that to rubes like me?

• tptacek 2y ago
  Go isn't built on an existing compiler framework like LLVM. It does its own code generation, has its own assembler.
  • nwokon 2y ago
    There is an accident of history here. Go was developed with the plan 9 C compiler suite as a starting point. Most notably those compilers did not generate assembler -- they emitted object code directly. This is described here: https://9p.io/sys/doc/compiler.html https://9p.io/sys/doc/compiler.html. The assembler facilitated transforming hand-written assembly to object code. And here the plan 9 folks chose a new syntax, probably because it was simpler to start afresh over using the existing "AT&T" or "Intel" syntax.
    • nimish 2y ago
      Typical plan 9, change for the sake of change. Second system effect writ large.