Bas van den Berg

This talk shows the evolution of the C2 programming language. It also shows how to build/evolve your own compiler in a generic way.

Building your own compiler is a daunting task. But more and more people do give it a try nowadays. One factor of this is the availability of LLVM. LLVM is a generic compiler back-end, that saves you from having to generate Assembly code. The only problem now is how to generate LLVM code..

C2 is a new programming language that been under development since 2011. It attempts to maintain the spirit of C, while considerable raising development speed. C2 also adds some greate features and tools to developers. This talk will zoom in on 'problems' in C, the solution chosen in C2 and the implementation on top of Clang/LLVM.

The C programming language has been around for a long time and is one of the main 'open-source' languages that is used today. The C2 project attempts to build on the success of C, while keeping the spirit of C intact. C2 doesn't change the abstraction level (like C++/Java/etc), but it does change the way code is structured . This will greatly accelerates development cycles and at the same time increase run-time speed as well. One major change is the removal of the use of #include's to access code in other files. The C2 language was first introduced at Fosdem '13.

A new C?

C2 is a new programming language that attempts to maintain the spirit of C, while considerably raising development speed. C2 also adds some great features and tools to C developers.

The C programming language has been around for a long time and C is one of the main 'open-source' languages that is used today. The C2 project attempts to build on the success of C, while keeping the spirit of C intact. C2 doesn't change the abstraction level (like C++/Java/etc), but it does change the way code is structured. This will greatly accelerate development cycles and at the same time increase run-time speed as well. One major change from C to C2 is the removal of the use of #include to access code in other files... This presentation at Fosdem 2013 will be the first ever to be given about C2.