Re:Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V
by Thaxll on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:47AM
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Rust compiler is LLVM afaik so C++, same for the JVM / C#. Having your entire runtime / tools in the same language make it easier.
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Re:Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V
by steveklabnik on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:56AM
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This is true for Rust, however, given that LLVM is the project doing the codegen, it's a little bit special; cross-compiling it to the platforms it supports is a bit easier than a random C++ library, since it's the one with the support in the first place.
Rust projects make much more use of C libraries than Go projects do, though, so for things other than the Rust compiler, this is still a good point.