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Besides the immediate appeal of bootstrapped compilers, we're also going to have a tool to turn C code into Go code when this is done. I imagine this might brea
by heydenberk 13y ago
Besides the immediate appeal of bootstrapped compilers, we're also going to have a tool to turn C code into Go code when this is done. I imagine this might breathe some new life into some stagnant projects.
- cpeterso 13y agoThe C-to-Go transmogrifier (my phone's autocorrection of "translator" :) well be an interesting artifact, but what other C programs are good candidates for Go? Does a Python-to-Go translator exist? Now that could be a very interesting tipping point for Go.
- pcwalton 13y agoThe fact that Python is dynamically typed would hurt. I suspect you'd end up with a lot of `interface{}` everywhere.
- ghshephard 13y agoWell, given that there is a Python-to-C translator (As long as your Python code is of the Cython variant).....
- dsymonds 13y agoIt might be useful, but I suspect it will still be a lot of work to expand the translator to be generally applicable. It's a fair amount of work just to get such a translator to operate on a specific code base.