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    Good compilers rely on being fed reasonably canonical code, and the C code generated by a transpiler is unlikely to look like that. Hence the objections about performance (probably). Commented Feb 5, 2020 at 23:04
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    In this space, you're going to find two kinds of people, the ones that have an opinion because they think they know, and the ones that actually know because they've tried it (I'm in the former category). According to the post you linked, the ones who object to C as a backed have tried and failed, and ultimately settled on emitting processor instructions or byte code. The LLVM project apparently went through this life-cycle, as they used to have a C backend that isn't supported or maintained anymore. Commented Feb 5, 2020 at 23:05