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Updated On the benefits of using C as a language backend (markdown)

Alexander Medvednikov 2020-12-26 00:47:19 +01:00
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2. Easy bootstrapping and development. To bootstrap V, you need to download `v.c` and run `cc v.c`. That's it. No dependencies, no bootstrapping chains, nothing. The developers of the language don't need to work on two parallel implementations, new features can be introduced and used in the language right away.
V has been 100% written in V since the release:
V has been 100% written in V since the release.
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3. C gives us amazing platform support. C runs on everything, literally everything. LLVM supports lots of platforms and architectures, but it will never beat C. Being able to run V software on everything that C supports is huge.