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If we take the most popular programming languages and look at what their reference (or most popular) implementations are written in, then we get: C++: JavaSc
by kgeist 10mo ago
If we take the most popular programming languages and look at what their reference (or most popular) implementations are written in, then we get:
C++: JavaScript (V8), Java, C#
C: Python, PHP, Lua, Ruby
Self-hosted: Go, Rust
Far from archaic indeed. We're still living in the C/C++ world.
- tmtvl 10mo agoI thought Rust still used LLVM (a C++ project) for the backend, did they already switch to Cranelift?
- pjmlp 10mo agoNo, it is still LLVM.
- Dylan16807 10mo agoI believe they're talking about runtimes, not compilers.
- pjmlp 10mo agoJava and C# compilers are selfhosted. Then depending on which JVM implementation we are talking about the actual JVM runtime can be Java, C, or C++, or a mix of them. Modern C compilers are written in C++. Rust uses LLVM, written in C++.
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