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Re:Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++ by kibwen on Thursday September 21, 2017 @06:03PM (#15307742)
> As far as I can tell the goal of the project isn't to target more platforms (Rust targets quite a few by way of LLVM)

There appears to be an attempt to leverage this project to target ESP8266, which AFAIK LLVM does not support: https://github.com/emosenkis/esp-rs

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Re:Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++ by kbenson on Thursday September 21, 2017 @07:34PM (#15308190)
Interesting. Along with with your other comment about the borrow checker, I guess you could develop using (or occasionally check against) the rustc compiler for borrow checker correctness, and deploy using mrustc. That's pretty cool.
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