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I guess it depends on how general you mean "generally" to be, but there is a history of people targeting C for new and experimental languages. It's a convenient

by scott_s 14y ago

I guess it depends on how general you mean "generally" to be, but there is a history of people targeting C for new and experimental languages. It's a convenient target because we have a good idea of what kind of assembly will be created for a given chunk of C, and you can get architecture independence for free.

Cushman 14y ago
> and you can get architecture independence for free And you target JavaScript for precisely the same reason :) Perhaps the better way to say it is this: C is a language which was once written by hand, but which is increasingly being used as a target for higher-level languages. The same thing is happening to JS, but at least to me "JavaScript is the new C" is not a particularly useful way to express that similarity.