Ask HN: Which programming language other than C is available for most platforms?

F77? But not clear if you're asking for a language which has compilers on most platforms, or a compiler for that language on most platforms ...

A language which has compilers on most platforms.

Thanks for the F77 recommendation.

It's an interpreter, and it's proprietary, commercial software free for personal use, but OpenLisp runs on thirty platforms as of today:

http://www.eligis.com/

It's an implementation of ISLisp/ISO Lisp. The paid version can compile applications to C.

Zig supports a large number of platforms, although the ones that are widely used are supported the most.

https://ziglang.org/download/0.9.1/release-notes.html

The best part about Zig is that it is a standalone cross-compiler, no cross-toolchain is needed. It can also compile and cross-compile C. You can directly import C header files with Zig, it's actually better at using C libraries than C is.

Free Pascal supports quite a few platforms, and compiles to native code.

https://www.freepascal.org/

Technically I imagine a language implemented in C should be portable on any platform that has a C compiler? It may lack some functionality if the platform is missing it, but the basics should be there.

I would have to say C++.

GCC cannot be built without C++; it is written in C++ now.