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Re:Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++ by pjmlp on Friday September 22, 2017 @12:58AM (#15309485)
It looks like C, but actually it is common subset from C++.

GCC has migrated to C++ in 2008.

https://lwn.net/Articles/542457/

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Re:Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++ by kazinator on Friday September 22, 2017 @10:57AM (#15312743)
Any carefully written C program that doesn't use certain C99 an C11 things can be said to be C++.

My language implementation compiles as C and C++. Every so often I build it as C++ (like before releases) to check for regressions and flush out any issues caught by the C++ compiler.

I don't think of it as "written in C++", though it is not technically a false statement.

All Scheme programs are really written in Common Lisp; they just need a suitable library of macros and functions ...

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