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Go compiler frontend (gccgo)

5 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2019-01-26 · latest 2025-10-09

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  1. …The resulting compiler would be slower but might be able to create much faster executables. [1]: https://github.com/golang/gofrontend
    comment by jerf · 2025-10-09 · in Goiaba: An experimental Go compiler, written in Rust
  2. …the go team maintains frontends for gcc and llvm, though not targeting microcontrollers like this. https://github.com/golang/gofrontend https://go.googlesource.com/gollvm/
    comment by kyrra · 2022-06-06 · in Tinygo: LLVM-based Go compiler for microcontrollers, WASM, and CLI tools
  3. …go. They maintain one compiler and two front ends: llvm: https://go.googlesource.com/gollvm/ gcc: https://github.com/golang/gofrontend Go: https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/cmd/compile And I believe all three are maintained by…
    comment by kyrra · 2020-02-09 · in Flang: The Fortran frontend of LLVM [video]
  4. …fresh, outside perspective. It's easy for a team to get stuck in tunnel vision or groupthink. [0]: https://github.com/golang/gofrontend/commit/62e3a8cc0a862b0a... [1]: https://github.com/golang/gofrontend/commit/89b442a0100286ee...
    comment by benesch · 2019-09-13 · in Building a Better Go Linker
  5. golang uses a handwritten recursive decent parser and handwritten lexer. https://github.com/golang/gofrontend/blob/master/go/parse.cc https://github.com/golang/gofrontend/blob/master/go/lex.cc I can't think of a single major tool that uses…
    comment by CalChris · 2019-01-26 · in GNU Bison 3.3 released