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Comment by SA9G

13 hours ago

I wanted to write a love note to C... and if you hate it, it is all my fault.

It looks interesting.

Isn't the same kind of thing available from LLVM?

  clang -emit-llvm -c main.c -o - | lli

  • You could run C that way... but scScript is a scripting language using C-like syntax with features designed for scripting. For example, it provides dual variadic parameter/arg lists. Turns out having "in" (pass-by-val) and "out" (pass-by-ref) parameters are more pleasant (at least to me) than trying to return N values out of a function (especially since script languages run away from pointers). Perhaps it is a testament to my ignorance, but I am not aware of another language that does this.

    The difficulty in designing a language is not so much implementing a compiler, but the iterative process of implementing and fine-tuning a given aesthetic... a given flavor as it were and it has to work well. Of course the other side is testing the damn thing... so my hats off to QA!

    Nevertheless, I am sure good tool users could save a lot of time instead of hand implementing everything, as I would. So thumbs up to LLVM.

i haven't looked at the code yet but i love the website. just how open source project websites should be! ♥