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Re:AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock by hobofan on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:05AM (#25237926)
I'm assuming you mean LLVM by "compiler". If platform support of Rust is your concern here due to limited platform support of LLVM, then that might be going away. Based on the fact that Cranelift recently landed as a non-LLVM codegen backend in nightly, I assume that work is already pretty far on supporting alternative backends that could support alternative platforms.
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Re:AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock by blub on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:57AM (#25238289)
Correct, I was not precise. Actually LLVM is not a problem for me personally, as the platforms I'm using right now are mainstream. I was merely trying to explain why some wouldn't be content just with LLVM.
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