transpiling to C actually makes adoption much easier. if you create an entirely new compiler auditing and verifying that takes many years and tons of money before it can be used for anything serious.
> transpiling to C actually makes adoption much easier.
Well, maybe.
I like transpiling to C because it brings with it all the hyper-optimisation that has gone into C compilers over decades.
As a solo on-again/off-again language designer, I can attest that you really cannot fixate on language purity or similar stuff like that: the goal is to write a program in your new language as soon as possible, and implement the features that motivated you to create a new language in the first place.
Transpiling to C is, in practice, no different from transpiling to assembler, with the advantage of portability and instant environment support (can call C libraries).
I've got a featurelist I'd like to implement. Focusing on emitting machine-code or assembly eats away valuable time I could have instead used to create a feature, or 10.
transpiling to C actually makes adoption much easier. if you create an entirely new compiler auditing and verifying that takes many years and tons of money before it can be used for anything serious.