Group: Software/research/ProgrammingLanguages

Revision as of 06:17, 4 October 2022

This page will contain various very biased comparison of status of various software

Feature	C	Go	Rust	Vala
Autotools support	Yes	No	No	partial
GCC support^[1]	Yes	Yes	Work in progress	uses gcc
Standardized^[2]	Yes^[3]	?	No^[4]	?

↑ Compared with other compilers like LLVM and rustc, GCC supports many CPU architectures and it's quite well integrated with various other software (gdb, gprof, build systems, etc). It also has long term support in mind as it continues to support other programming language standards. In addition it's a GNU project, so it has users freedom in mind.
↑ Having a standard or something similar to refer to enables people to write code that can still be used without requiring too much maintenance to adapt to newer compiler versions.
↑ Only the drafts are publicly available though.
↑ See last GCC conference.

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+! GCC support<ref>Compared with other compilers like LLVM and rustc, GCC supports many CPU architectures and it's quite well integrated with various other software (gdb, gprof, build systems, etc). It also has long term support in mind as it continues to support other programming language standards. In addition it's a GNU project, so it has users freedom in mind.</ref>
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+! Standardized<ref>Having a standard or something similar to refer to enables people to write code that can still be used without requiring too much maintenance to adapt to newer compiler versions.</ref>
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+| {{no}}<ref>See last GCC conference.</ref>
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