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It's almost just C without the warts; I wish someone would make a language that was both as good as Zig or Rust, and could be compiled to C code. The dependency on LLVM rules out a lot of embedded use cases, because some chipsets require forks of LLVM, or worse, proprietary C compilers or forks of GCC or something else, to run. Would be nice to have a language that just works everywhere.

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I feel like the onus should be on chip makers to write LLVM backends because proprietary C compilers and GCC forks almost universally suck. I understand why they don't, but it's just disappointing on both ends of the pipeline. That said, ARM is great, and you can target most ARM chips with LLVM.

There's also the downside that transpiling to C locks you into an ABI, which limits what compiler developers can do towards the end of the compilation passes.

> I wish someone would make a language that was both as good as Zig or Rust, and could be compiled to C code.

Zig will eventually have this feature. It is a work-in-progress: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/src/codegen/c.zig

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