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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by strongdenial on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:56PM (#25717331)
Not a requirement for a GCC front-end and certainly not worth sacrificing a potentially faster path to bootstrapping the official compiler implementation. You should be worried about the ease by which various systems can bootstrap and adopt the language, which is a mostly solved problem for C/C++ but not a given for Rust itself. Some maintainers will absolutely refuse bootstrapping off of binary artifacts compiled from other systems, others won't even accept 'compiled to C' artifacts.

Keeping a viable C++ implementation as part of GCC would be the smartest decision.

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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by pabs3 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:50AM (#25742844)
The Bootstrappable builds folks dislike binary artifacts so much they are implementing bootstrapping a full Linux system from only 512 bytes of machine code plus all the source code:

https://bootstrappable.org/ https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by CameronNemo on Sunday January 10, 2021 @05:46PM (#25721043)
Who are these groups who are demanding such easy bootstrapping? OS or distro developers? Programmers working on embedded and/or safety critical systems?

I know OpenBSD avoids rust because of the bootstrapping issue, but they also avoid LLVM because of a licensing issue.

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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by IcePic on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:43AM (#25726715)
OpenBSD uses clang/llvm on most arches by now for the system compiler.
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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by CameronNemo on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:37PM (#25753214)
Uf. Brain fart. I meant that they avoid GCC because of licensing.
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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by gpderetta on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:00AM (#25727799)
bootstrapping is important, but I believe that GCC already allows non-primary (i.e. optional) languages frontends to be written in other languages. The ADA front end is written in ADA for example.
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