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It's frankly harder and/or less fun to generate C and integrate with whatever locally support C infrastructure you have than it is to BYO.

The Nim language compiles Nim source code into C as an intermediate step.

I was considering this for my programming language but I will most likely not use it because it makes optimisations and garbage collection harder, and the C would not be human readable (just look at the output of the chicken compiler for an example) so there's not a huge benefit. C-- could be an option but it isn't very active or well used.

In terms of relying on tested and supported infrastructure lots of these projects use llvm.