2015-11-11 15:19 GMT+03:00, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d > I've looked into generating C code as an output format. I found the problems > to > be endemic and working around them was harder than just generating native > code: > > 1. You're at the mercy of bugs in the C compiler you cannot fix. > 2. C leaves quite a lot as "implementation defined", causing endless > compatibility issues with > various C compilers. > 3. C's integral promotion rules. > 4. Generating exception handling code for C is miserable and inefficient. > 5. Your compiler is going to be slower than C. > 6. You'll suffer from endless bug reports caused by a mismatch between your .... All this problems are not fatal. There is plenty of the "X" to C translators, even C++. Most interesting for me is Vala. And generated by Vala C code looks nice. Your point of view is a point of the translator writer. From the user point having a C generated code drops all needs to descripe how this or thats is implemented by translator, a more portable code because a C compilers are written for everything (8051 for example), chance quickly replace and compare different C compilers and interpreters as backends, chance to use different C tools to transform and analyze a code, etc....
PS: you just say that C is not suitable for the system programming
