c3c mit Homebrew, Nix, pacman installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• c3c

Projektgeschichte

The official C3 materials describe the language as building on C syntax and semantics while retaining familiarity for C programmers. The compiler project is organized around that goal: it ships prebuilt compiler binaries, a standard library, build commands, project templates, and a declarative project.json format.

The C3 project explicitly cites the C2 language as an inspiration for iterating on C without becoming a wholly new language. Its design principles emphasize procedural programming, staying close to C, C ABI compatibility, a modest language surface, and adding higher-level conveniences only where the value is high.

By the 0.8.x series, the official roadmap described C3 as feature-stable enough to run in production with the usual caveats for pre-1.0 software. The roadmap targets 0.9 in 2027 and 1.0 in 2028, with 1.0 meaning a language freeze while the standard library can continue to evolve.

Adoptionsgeschichte

C3C adoption is still early compared with established systems languages, but the project has moved beyond an experimental compiler-only artifact. Official releases provide binaries for Windows, Linux, macOS, and OpenBSD, and the README documents verified compiler builds across Windows, macOS, Linux, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.

The project uses a showcase repository and community channels to collect user projects and feedback. Its own demonstration of compiling a modified vkQuake with a portion converted to C3 is a practical adoption signal for the language's C interop story.

Wie es verwendet wird

Package-manager users install c3c to get the C3 compiler executable. Typical usage begins with c3c init to create a project, project.json to describe targets and build settings, and c3c build or c3c run to compile and execute a project.

The language is aimed at systems and C-adjacent application work. Official materials highlight C ABI compatibility, modules, semantic macros, compile-time reflection, generic modules, slices, contracts, defer, value methods, and built-in build tooling.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, c3c is interesting because it packages an emerging C-family language as a single CLI compiler with its own project format instead of delegating all build metadata to CMake, Meson, or make. It sits in the same modern systems-language conversation as Zig, Odin, Jai, Rust, and D, but keeps a deliberate C-like surface.

Its Homebrew, Nix, and pacman packaging means the compiler has crossed the threshold from source-only curiosity to something users expect to install through normal developer package channels.

Zeitleiste

• 2025: The 0.7 release series was published through GitHub releases.
• 2026-05-12: Version 0.8.0 was released.
• 2026-06-10: Version 0.8.1 was released and documented as the current stable compiler in the README.
• 2027-06-01: The official roadmap targets C3 0.9.
• 2028-06-01: The official roadmap targets C3 1.0.

Related projects

• C2 is named by the C3 README as a direct inspiration.
• vkQuake is used by the C3 project as a C interop demonstration.
• The official comparison page discusses C, C++, Rust, Zig, Jai, Odin, and D as nearby systems-language reference points.

Quellen

• https://c3-lang.org/
• https://c3-lang.org/faq/compare-languages/
• https://c3-lang.org/getting-started/projects/
• https://c3-lang.org/getting-started/roadmap/
• https://github.com/c3lang/c3c
• https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/releases