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Cake a C23 front end and transpiler written in C

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 3 stories, 4 comments · first 2022-08-20 · latest 2025-12-27

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  1. cake[0] might interest you. Basically transpiles C into C89. [0]: https://github.com/thradams/cake
    comment by TUSF · 2025-12-27 · in C/C++ Embedded Files (2013)
  2. …and a bunch of other stuff, very cool project, check it out if you haven't seen it yet :) [1] https://github.com/thradams/cake
    comment by taminka · 2025-09-09 · in Contracts for C
  3. Interesting project, similar to Cake[0] [0] - https://github.com/thradams/cake
    comment by rwbt · 2025-01-23 · in A Minimalist TypeScript for C
  4. …Cake [2] and tinycc [3] which are both relatively small. [1] https://github.com/rui314/chibicc [2] https://github.com/thradams/cake [3] https://bellard.org/tcc/
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    Ownership Checks for C [pdf]
    story by sigsev_251 · 2023-07-22 · 1 comment
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    Cake – A C23 compiler frond end written from scratch in C
    story by thradams · 2022-09-13 · 52 comments
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    cake: C23 compiler frond end written from scratch in C
    story by ducktective · 2022-08-20 · 0 comments