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Re:C2rust: Transpile C to Rust by elromulous on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @12:03AM (#30173927)
Hi Walter!

Was compiling into C a consideration? Seems like this side steps some of the compatibility issues (not to mention getting a lot of optimization "for free"), albeit while inheriting any compilation and ABI limitations.

Thanks! P.s. We met at GoingNative2013 - you were very kind with my many questions back then as well!

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Re:C2rust: Transpile C to Rust by WalterBright on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @01:02AM (#30174319)
I've considered compiling into C code, but after seeing what cfront (compiles from C++ to C) had to go through, I figured that would be a ton more work than just generating code directly!

Glad I was able to help you at GN2013!

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