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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by faitswulff on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:22PM (#25716916)
Do gcc languages - even low level ones - remain written in c?
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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by guerby on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:40PM (#25717133)
The GCC Ada frontend is written in Ada:

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

There is also a port of the Ada frontend to LLVM backend:

https://github.com/AdaCore/gnat-llvm

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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by pjmlp on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:07PM (#25718310)
Besides the Ada example, GDC shares the D frontend, written in D, with other D implementations.
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