{"slug": "xc", "name": "xc", "category": "dev-libs", "category_name": "Libraries and frameworks", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 3, "warners": 0, "score": 2.692, "rising": 0.35, "first": "2026-01-08", "latest": "2026-10-01", "why": "I've used xc\u00b3 for a long time now and it's fairly solid.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 0, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I've used xc\u00b3 for a long time now and it's fairly solid.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "compile-xc.org", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://compile-xc.org", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["xc", "Xc"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 798691296, "item_id": 49918206, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49918206", "by": "20after4", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've used xc\u00b3 for a long time now and it's fairly solid.", "excerpt": "This is pretty cool. I've been interested in runnable code in markdown for a long time. It's a kind of \"literate programming\u00b9\" which I've always thought was one of Knuth's best ideas. More prior art: xcfile\u00b2 I've used xc\u00b3 for a long time now and it's fairly solid. The idea of runnable markdown is definitely useful. A lot of projects have attempted it and none that I've seen have achieved what I'd call perfection, how", "context": "runs home infrastructure", "use_case": "runnable markdown, home infra config", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Ledge.sh \u2013 Runnable Markdown Notes"}, {"id": 764236496, "item_id": 47764781, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764781", "by": "begoon", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Consider https://github.com/begoon/xc", "excerpt": "Consider https://github.com/begoon/xc", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Midnight Captain \u2013 A midnight commander inspired file manager"}, {"id": 744813281, "item_id": 46550830, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46550830", "by": "kitd", "date": "2026-01-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "A couple more you may find interesting", "excerpt": "A couple more you may find interesting: 1. Xc [https://xcfile.dev/] - an md-based task runner 2. 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I plan to make it the support matrix for my autovectorising compiler [2] as a start, and try and grow organically from there. Both the server (x86_64) and the client (wasm32) are entirely written in xc, so there\u2019s some justification :) 1: https://blewit.net/sandbox 2: https://compile-xc.org/compiler/", "context": "", "use_case": "autovectorising compiler", "switched_from": "", "story": "Reddit will require an account to access"}, {"id": 799693200, "item_id": 49980825, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980825", "by": "spacedcowboy", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "compare", "quote": "so you're 150x faster than clang/g++", "excerpt": "The benchmarks for 'xc' - \"my\" compiler for heterogenous computing (gpu and cpu, all in the same language, compiler managing data-hazards between them) are all on the order of a second to a few seconds, for the long pole. So if I'm comparing against (say) C++, Swift, ObjC, on a given (arm64 or x86_64) architecture, I want to see that sort of timescale, a bit less is fine, a bit more is fine. Of course, when you (toda", "context": "", "use_case": "Heterogeneous CPU/GPU compiler", "switched_from": "", "story": "Benchmark in Milliseconds"}, {"id": 797468273, "item_id": 49841767, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841767", "by": "spacedcowboy", "date": "2026-09-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have a binary running on my iPhone which was written on, and signed on a Linux box", "excerpt": "Yeah, honestly, I'm wondering, not even why people are against plan-mode, but how they're getting stuff done without it. Maybe it's me (it usually is), but I don't give an LLM small tasks that a human could knock out in a half-day. I give them big tasks, stuff that would take a human a few months to a year - and then I ask it to give me a plan, as a living document, and we spend a good hour or two iterating over the ", "context": "", "use_case": "Cross-compiler", "switched_from": "", "story": "Plan mode is dead"}, {"id": 796412257, "item_id": 49775766, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775766", "by": "spacedcowboy", "date": "2026-09-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I (https://compile-xc.org) built a compiler for a language I call \u2018xc\u2019", "excerpt": "> If you want to gatekeep or only create stuff to boost your own ego or portfolio, then AI might be an issue, if you actually want to build stuff, AI is godsend Couldn\u2019t agree more. If you want an example of what an AI can help a sole (ex-)engineer build in about 6 months, how about this\u2026 (For all the below \u201cI\u201d is short for \u201cI used Claude code to\u201d) - I (https://compile-xc.org) built a compiler for a language I call \u2018", "context": "", "use_case": "cross-platform compiler", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295893", "title": "Reddit will require an account to access", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49967427", "title": "Benchmark in Milliseconds", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49902382", "title": "Show HN: Ledge.sh \u2013 Runnable Markdown Notes", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49840054", "title": "Plan mode is dead", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49774329", "title": "AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734912", "title": "Midnight Captain \u2013 A midnight commander inspired file manager", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 798691296, "item_id": 49918206, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49918206", "by": "20after4", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've used xc\u00b3 for a long time now and it's fairly solid.", "excerpt": "This is pretty cool. 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