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by masklinn 4594 days ago
Why? That's a fairly common strategy, GHC worked the same way until a few years ago (and IIRC you can still ask for compilation to go through C).

It makes for easier reading of the codegen (reading C source is easier than reading machine code, even if it's generated C source) and before LLVM made it much easier to leverage C compiler optimizations & multiplatform support.