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A comment on GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021. Parent comment

Re:GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021 by athrowaway3z on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @07:03AM (#28366291)
Iirc there are people within the rust community that think this approach to using GCC is suboptimal, and that the reason this project survives is that some professors have decided to use this as an assignment.

If this is true , it wouldn't surprise me if this is the effect of them cargo-culting one of their Software-Engineering course

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Re:GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021 by steveklabnik on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @08:23AM (#28367013)
> there are people within the rust community that think this approach to using GCC is suboptimal,

This is true. There are also some (like me) who think both are great.

> the reason this project survives is that some professors have decided to use this as an assignment.

I am not sure that this is true.

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Re:GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021 by Subsentient on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @07:29AM (#28366511)
There are also those of us who are thrilled that a total alternative Rust parser is being written. A systems language should never be centralized to the degree Rust is.
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Re:GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021 by myrrlyn on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @05:00PM (#28373600)
why not
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