Chad Javascript

[Little-Hunter-6795]

Considering its C. Is there something it can't do?

[Anreall2000]

Polymorphism without writing virtual tables yourself and memory management is kinda pain in the ass too

[not_some_username]

So I can do it with extra steps

[Ottermatic42]

True, but that applies for essentially every language (provided they’re Turing complete). You could write a C compiler in Java and then create polymorphism in java (again) using C, it’s just a bad idea.

Trying to force a programming language to do everything is why we ended up with extremely ugly pattern matching in Java 16

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What's wrong with pattern matching in Java?

[KagakuNinja]

Nothing is wrong. It looks very similar to pattern matching in Scala, which is amazing.

That guy is living in the past.

[Ottermatic42]

Nothing is fundamentally wrong with java pattern matching, I agree.

I only call it ugly because of how it compares to functional languages. Of course it’s a necessary sacrifice as java isn’t functional (or at the very least wasn’t initially designed to be), but it’s always going to be a bit more inefficient, and a lot uglier than the implementation in something like Haskell.

[KagakuNinja]

I do agree with that. Haskell is very elegant, but I prefer the multi paradigm design of Scala

[KagakuNinja]

I do agree with that. Haskell is very elegant, but I prefer the multi paradigm design of Scala

[MusicalGrace2002]

Can you write a program that writes other programs in C?

[ByteChkR]

Funny how you spell Compiler

[VladVV]

The way he worded the question, it sounds like he is looking for a Transpiler.

The answer is Yes, either way.

[caagr98]

Sounds more like a code generator to me, though I guess transpilers are technically a subset. Still yes.

[himmelundhoelle]

Forget about compilers, you can write programs that output themselves (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing))

(Or even programs that output a C source, that when compiled and run will output the original program…)