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Re:Rust is Not so Hairy by msla on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @02:00PM (#17348912)
At least one free Java compiler compiles to machine code: gcj.

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCJ

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Re:Rust is Not so Hairy by pjmlp on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @03:09PM (#17349445)
Yes, but it sadly died around 2009 when most developers left the project.

GCC devs just kept it around because of the unit tests, but with GCC 7 they removed it from the distribution.

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