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Another practical application is using tinycc as a backend compiler for Nim [1]. I set up my nim.cfg to default to this for a rapid edit-compile-test cycle (usually under 250 millisec), with a quick define switch to move to gcc-optimized code.

Similar is likely possible for other prog.langs that emit C.

One helpful feature for the full round-trip to an executable file is a built-in object file linker.

Also, libtcc can be used as a library to "compile a string" and then run it which is the JIT application mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

[1] https://nim-lang.org