[HN Gopher] Tiny C Compiler
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       Tiny C Compiler
        
       Author : guerrilla
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2026-02-07 21:45 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (bellard.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (bellard.org)
        
       | rustyhancock wrote:
       | What a blast from the past TCC!
       | 
       | Sad but not surprised to see it's no longer maintained (8 years
       | ago!).
       | 
       | Even in the era of terabyte NVMe drives my eyes water when I
       | install MSVC (and that's usually just for the linker!)
        
         | antirez wrote:
         | That is, I believe, one the points of AI and Open Source many
         | contacts. Something like TCC, with a good coding agent and a
         | developer that cares about the project, and knows enough about
         | it, can turn into a project that can be maintained without the
         | otherwise large efforts needed, that resulted into the project
         | being abandoned. I'm resurrecting many projects of mine I had
         | no longer the time to handle, like dump1090, linenoise, ...
        
         | pkal wrote:
         | I don't think it is not maintained, there is plenty of activity
         | going on in the repo: https://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git, they just
         | don't seem to be cutting releases?
        
         | kristianp wrote:
         | There's still activity on the mailing list. It may still be
         | maintained.
         | 
         | https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2026-02/t...
        
       | haunter wrote:
       | There is an actively maintained fork with RISC-V support and such
       | 
       | https://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git
       | 
       | https://github.com/TinyCC/tinycc
        
         | csb6 wrote:
         | I've never seen another repo with public commit access like
         | that. I guess the project is niche enough that you don't get
         | spammed with bad or malicious commits.
        
           | haunter wrote:
           | Yeah it's basically anarchy (to some extent)
           | 
           | https://repo.or.cz/h/mob.html
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           | >The idea is to provide unmoderated side channel for random
           | contributors to work on a project, with similar rationale as
           | e.g. Wikipedia - that given enough interested people, the
           | quality will grow rapidly and occassional "vandalism" will
           | get fixed quickly. Of course this may not work nearly as well
           | for software, but here we are, to give it a try.
        
       | pbohun wrote:
       | There also is an unofficial mirror which has updates.
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       | https://github.com/TinyCC/tinycc
        
       | throwatdem12311 wrote:
       | This was the compiler I was required to use for my courses in
       | university. GCC was forbidden. The professor just really liked
       | tcc for some reason.
        
         | mort96 wrote:
         | Seems like a good way to get students to write C rather than
         | GNU C.
        
       | deivid wrote:
       | TCC is fantastic! Very hackable, easy to compile to WASM for some
       | interesting in-browser compilation
        
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