Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++

Re:Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++ by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday September 21, 2017 @05:43PM (#15307620)

If bootstrapping/portability is the goal, probably C.

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Re:Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++ by damnstraight on Thursday September 21, 2017 @06:16PM (#15307816)

Conveniently there are already C++ compilers bootstrappable with C.

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Re:Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++ by tavert on Thursday September 21, 2017 @07:16PM (#15308115)

Any that are both open-source and C++11 compliant? Guess you can still build g++-4.6 with just C, then a newer g++ from that, but it's a bit of a pain.

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