On: KickC is a C-compiler for 6502-based platforms cre...

[WalterBright]

The way to do it is to make a C-like language that has types and operators that map easily onto the 6502 architecture.

After all, C was designed to map onto the PDP-11 architecture - things like postincrement.

[polymipisexp → WalterBright]

The PDP-11 postincrement thing is very often repeated, and I'm sure there are good reasons to suspect it, but here is one bit of evidence to the contrary I find convincing

https://yarchive.net/comp/c.html

[billyjobob → WalterBright]

https://github.com/irmen/prog8

[flohofwoe → billyjobob]

There's also millfork which is a "mid-level" language specifically for 8-bit CPUs:

https://github.com/KarolS/millfork