Wait, I thought LLVM had a C backend which could be used for the purpose of transpiling Rust to C? Turns out not for a long time, but now maybe again: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/re-ann-llvm-c-backend-still-abl...
crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C
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Re: crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C
#12Re: crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C
#13> For the past 3 years, I have been working on compiling Rust to C. .. This is, by my count, the 14th attempt: cilly Gotta respect the dedication to a niche interest. > The primary goal of this is support for old/obscure hardware with no LLVM/GCC support. I remember reading about the bootstrapping question, how it typically requires a Rust compiler to build the Rust compiler from source. https://bootstrapping.mirahez…
So the author made a Rust to C transpiler and immediately used it to transpile... the Rust compiler. I love it.
Re: crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C
#14I wonder if this could be used in PPC Mac OS X, where LLVM isn't supported and most graphical applications need to use GCC 4 with Apple's SDK.
Re: crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C
#15Finally we can rewrite all the Rust in C. ;)
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#16Re: crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C
#17i believe the author is confused
this is the wrong direction
(jk i read the readme)
Re: crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C
#18This could be used within https://bootstrappable.org/projects.html to make bootstrappability of rust incredibly much easier other than the previous route of OCaml and other things. I know some folks within the bootstrappable OS projects community are on Hackernews and I hope that they could take a look at this. I feel as if this project could drastically shrink down the efforts needed to get a working rust compiler i…
Not really. This C code is more like a binary and compiler artifact than a source code. So it won't match the standards of bootstrap.
Re: crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C
#19As an ex C++ compiler developer, I heartily approve of this project. Kudos.