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Re:The Resurgence of C Programming by stymaar on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @05:37PM (#13266839)
> Rust has one: if you commit to using Rust, you're also committing yourself to an LLVM-based monoculture

rust currently has only one backend, which is LLVM, but their is a working project to build an alternative one for the Cretonne compiler[1] for the «debug» builds, and there might also be a GCC backend for rustc one day if people are interested enough to build it. I'm not aware of any fundamental difficulties that would prevent it.

[1]: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/possible-alternative-compi...

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Re:The Resurgence of C Programming by Manishearth on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @01:54PM (#13272663)
(The reason cretonne is debug only is that it's raison d'être is for WASM, so it won't be doing (many) optimizations. It will help with rapid prototyping however, and perhaps let you do things like a rust interpreter)
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