INingve·Nov 14, 2025Submission
Cjsawk: A self-hosted compiler for a subset of C, JavaScript, and Awk
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What Hacker News says
2 sourcesThis talk describes the implementation of a self hosted C compiler that is implemented in a dialect of C that is simultaneously valid C, JavaScript, and AWK. This allows us to ship a C compiler in source form that can be built on many different platforms.
cjsawk itself is also capable of building a C99 compiler. In turn this allows us to bootstrap from source all the way up to GCC.
Web demo: https://cosinusoidally.github.io/tcc_simple/experiments/cjsa...
Project github repo:
https://github.com/cosinusoidally/tcc_simple/tree/master/exp...
Slides: https://online.accuconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10...
In cjsawk: A Self-Hosted Compiler for a Subset of C, JavaScript, and Awk