Group: Software/research/ProgrammingLanguages
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Introduction
This page will contain various very biased comparison of status of various software
Programming languages
| Feature | Ada | C | Go | Rust | Vala |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autotools support | Yes | No | No | partial | |
| GCC support[1] | Yes | 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. 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.
- ↑ 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 one of the two talks on rust in GNU cauldron 2022.
