Post #4178328
2026-07-29 00:44 UTC
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@MaddieM4@raphus.social 2026-07-29 00:52
At least at this point I feel pretty strongly committed to reducing the pure C surface area of #pronelang and moving as much stuff as possible into prelude and stdlib. This is mainly about maintenance - as I've mentioned before, the stdlib will be versioned on a yearly basis to allow backwards-incompatible changes and optimizations. But I've lately been thinking about how big a deal it is to have transpilation be part of that flexible layer instead of achieved at the "backwards compatible for ten thousand years" layer, especially if there's multiple transpilation target languages - C is the most popular and important, but I always wanted to also be able to transpile to JS, and that becomes dramatically easier if it's in-language.