At the start of the year, a new GCC compiler front-end was proposed for the half-century old ALGOL 68 programming language. Not exactly a popular programming language in recent decades and ahead of the GCC 15 release it was decided to not merge it yet to GCC. Even with that setback, development on the ALGOL 68 GCC compiler continues.
The GCC steering committee earlier in the year decided to not merge the ALGOL 68 front-end but were okay with it being developed on a branch of the GCC Git repository and for a GCC/GNU-hosted mailing list.
We hadn’t heard anything significant from the GCC ALGOL 68 development in the months since but at last month’s GNU Tools Cauldron in Portugal was an update on this front-end. Developer Jose Marchesi presented the latest work on the ALGOL 68 “GA68” compiler support.
Those interested in this GNU ALGOL 68 compiler work can see the presentation assets from GNU Tools Cauldron 2025.
Separately, out today is GNU Marst 2.8 for this GNU Algol-to-C translator.
