Why are there compilers written in C and C++ in 2022?
Why are there compilers written in C and C++ in 2022?
Nicholas King
Blake Harris
Because it runs on most platforms
Adam Reyes
Because C++ is a tested language that actually works for complex software. What else would they be written in? Your FOTD memelang?
Joseph Howard
Because almost no one actually writes a compiler for their meme language. They just write a LLVM or a GCC frontend. And those are in C++.
Jace Campbell
What is C's horny copy?
Robert Rivera
C++, of course.
Jacob Reed
Because they are legacy projects. If you're writing a compiler from scratch nowadays, you should use a real high level language.
Compilers do not suffer from the constraints that would rule out high level languages, hence using C/C++ for them is just shooting yourself in the foot.
Camden Martinez
C++ never works for any software. Everything written in it ends up being an abomination.
Caleb Lewis
Easy access to qualified programmers.
Hunter Sanchez
>C++NY
Checks out
Ayden Harris
Clang and GCC are both written in C++. Just admit you're an unemployed retard.
Compilers have to be very performant.
Jace Torres
>Compilers have to be very performant.
Yes. Your point being?
Jackson Peterson
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Charles Bell
Both GCC and Clang are unmaintainable spaghetti monstrosities with new bugs being discovered every other day. Even if I were unemployed, it wouldn't change the reality of the situation.
Parker Bell
While decades-old software written in $YOUR_FAVOURITE_LANGUAGE is always perfectly maintainable and bugfree. Did I guess right?
Luke Parker
meito_(maze)
Chase Clark
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Andrew Nguyen
GCC is written in C++, they switched years ago.
Which modern compilers are still written in C?
Jonathan Cox
>Compilers have to be very performant.
No they don't. People prefer that compilers be performant, but they are not required to be. Compilers don't have real-time requirements.
Bentley Scott
Do they fuck the dog?
Josiah Scott
Kill yourself.
Michael Diaz
You need compilers to be fast so you can perform complex optimizations within reasonable time.
Mason Cook
>but they are not required to be.
This mentality is why most software sucks. Every program that is used interactively by the user (as opposed to say a maintenance script that you run overnight) should be as fast as possible, that's a fundamental part of good UX. Not just programs with hard real-time requirements.
Oliver Ross
>Why are there compilers written in C and C++ in 2022?
Most compilers are written in the language they are intended to compile. The compiler used to bootstrap them can be written in any language, so people will use the tools they know. Turns out C and C++ are commonly used in university classes that teach compiler development. It helps that Lex and Yacc are used with C, and that LLVM is a C++ library.
Austin Peterson
>Compilers have to be very performant.
Judging by MSVC, this isn't actually required.
tcc I guess?