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Revision as of 18:36, 4 October 2022

Introduction

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

Programming languages

Feature Ada C C++ D Erlang Fortran Go Java Objective-C Objective-C++ Rust Unified Parallel C. Vala
Autoconf Yes Yes Yes Fortran 77, Fortran 90, Fortran 95 basic support for gccgo Yes Yes No
Automake Yes Yes Fortran 77, Fortran 9x No with CGJ Yes Yes No partial partial
GCC 12 support[1] Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Work in progress No valac uses gcc
Microcontrollers[2] GCC, SDCC GCC, other? depends on glib
Standardized[3] ? Yes[4] ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? No[5] ? ?
  1. 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. It also has good documentation that explain how it handles C code for instance. In addition it's a GNU project, so it has users freedom in mind. In addition Guix has made GCC bootstrapable from a binary that is less than 1KB, and it doesn't require huge resources to build or bootstrap.
  2. Can we compile code for microcontrollers, if so which compilers are used / necessary for that.
  3. 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.
  4. Only the drafts are publicly available though.
  5. See one of the two talks on rust in GNU cauldron 2022.