Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C
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New tool translating Go to C, directly relevant to developer tooling.
Summary
Solod transpiles a restricted Go subset—supporting structs, methods, slices, and defer but excluding goroutines and generics—directly to readable C11 with zero runtime. It enables native C interop without CGO and leverages Go tooling like `go test` on source files, while heap allocation is opt-in via the standard library. Installation via `go install` and commands like `so build` streamline transpilation and compilation, with benchmarks showing competitive speed, especially in C-bound scenarios.