Comment by vaylian
3 months ago
Why would you like to have this language? Is it about control over the execution? About better ways to personally optimize? Or just intellectual pleasure? Or is it about reliving the olden days of assembly language programming but with a modern conveniences?
I would simply find pleasure in being able to understand basically every level of the stack. For a RISC architecture, it's not too hard to get a grasp on how it works. Likewise for a simple-enough programming language. The problem(?) is that in between these two is an opaque black box--the optimization backend, which I feel I have no hope of understanding. So instead I wonder if it's possible to have a "safe" (safer than C) and "high-level" (more abstractive than C) language that is still useful and semi-performant, and I'm wondering how much ergonomics would need to be sacrificed to get there. It's a thought experiment.