Solod – A Subset of Go That Translates to C

4 comments

• Retr0id 1 hour ago
  I don't really "get" the sweet-spot being targeted here. You don't get channels, goroutines, or gc, so aside from syntax and spatial memory safety you're not really inheriting much from Go. There is also no pathway to integrate with existing Go libraries.

  Spatial memory safety is nice but it's the temporal safety that worries me most, in nontrivial C codebases.

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  • tidwall 55 minutes ago
    Looks to me like having the ability to write Go syntax and interop directly with C is the plus.
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    • Retr0id 47 minutes ago
      I do like Go's syntax but I can't help thinking the best language for C interop is C.
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      • AdieuToLogic 21 minutes ago
        > I do like Go's syntax but I can't help thinking the best language for C interop is C.

        SWIG[0] is a viable option for incorporating C code as well.

        0 - https://swig.org/Doc4.4/Go.html#Go
• tidwall 59 minutes ago
  "To keep things simple, there are no channels, goroutines, closures, or generics."

  I wonder if it could be integrated with https://github.com/tidwall/neco, which has Go-like coroutines, channels, and synchronization methods.
• MYEUHD 42 minutes ago
  Related and currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627595
• Onavo 29 minutes ago
  Does it work with the preprocessor?