"you eliminate the necessity of serializing and deserializing your IR during your compilation pipeline for no reason (which is effectively what compiling and reparsing C is doing)."
I did debugging before it got to C and just ensured C generation would do exactly what I wanted. I could read and debug the C itself as a check against problems in that. Yet, serializing and deserializing my IR just didn't happen: it was just LISP or BASIC expressions depending on which version we're talking about. Just tree's.
You're debugging regression claim is correct as I addressed in my main comment. Fortunately, my development style and choice of libraries compensated for that nicely. It would've been quite painful if I had to deal with arbitrary FOSS or proprietary stuff out of necessity. I'd be working at both abstraction levels for sure or coding miracles into my tooling haha.
I did debugging before it got to C and just ensured C generation would do exactly what I wanted. I could read and debug the C itself as a check against problems in that. Yet, serializing and deserializing my IR just didn't happen: it was just LISP or BASIC expressions depending on which version we're talking about. Just tree's.
You're debugging regression claim is correct as I addressed in my main comment. Fortunately, my development style and choice of libraries compensated for that nicely. It would've been quite painful if I had to deal with arbitrary FOSS or proprietary stuff out of necessity. I'd be working at both abstraction levels for sure or coding miracles into my tooling haha.