How many Go compilers are out there?

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Apr 25, 2019, 11:29:32 AM4/25/19

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These are the ones I am aware of:

. GC toolchain

. GCC

. gopherjs

By Go compiler I mean any tool that understands Go source files and generates executable code.

Thanks

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Apr 25, 2019, 11:55:25 AM4/25/19

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There is also llgo (though I'm not sure if that one still works) and GoLLVM.

Ian

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Apr 25, 2019, 2:24:40 PM4/25/19

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and tinygo.

-s

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May 8, 2019, 6:52:21 AM5/8/19

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One of the reasons I like Go is the very professional approach to its development. Work is well done since the inception.

Having a language specification appears to be a simple matter, yet many other languages doesn't have such document.

It turns out that this very artefact is essential for writing decent tools and I am glad Go has several independently developed compilers.

Thanks.

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May 8, 2019, 8:03:28 AM5/8/19

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Hello,

There is also Joy, another Go-to-JS Compiler.
https://mat.tm/joy/

EmGo and TinyGo are two Embedded Go (cross) compilers.
https://github.com/ziutek/emgo
https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo

The SSA interpreter and gomacro are also somewhat related to a Go compiler.
https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/go/ssa/interp
https://github.com/cosmos72/gomacro

Regards,
Harald

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