cowgol

ams, here are some pointers if you wanted to write something yourself: Also written by the maintainer of the CP/Mish project (and not CP/M specific) is Cowgol. Alpha quality. But it's a self-hosted Pascal/Ada-like language with compiler. Runs on 8-bit systems, at least theoretically. It is written, of course, entirely in Cowgol: https://github.com/davidgiven/cowgol Millfork is another new language which targets CP/M systems, among others. It's a whole-program optimizing cross-compiler for a language somewhat lower level than C, with properties that make it very nice to compile for 8-bit systems like no recursion, and no automatic promotion to 16-bit integers in type handling: https://github.com/KarolS/millfork There's some work on a Z80 target for FreePascal. I don't think there's CP/M specific support, so there's a project idea: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Z80 SDCC supports the platform with C surprisingly well. I wouldn't call it rock-solid but compared to the above toys it is an industrial quality compiler for the Z80. In fact, C seems to be the most common actual language for hobbyist and the little remaining serious Z80 development, probably ahead of assembly. If it just reads and writes the terminal and can fit in about 60 KB, then a port is probably straightforward.