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Re:Rust front-end merged in GCC trunk by GrayShade on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @07:24AM (#33982546)
That's rather rustc_codegen_gcc. gcc-rs is more for people who don't like LLVM and/or Rust.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_gcc

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Re:Rust front-end merged in GCC trunk by masklinn on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @10:36AM (#33984917)
A rust implementation for people who don’t like rust seems like a strange take.
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Re:Rust front-end merged in GCC trunk by cstrahan on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:16PM (#33987423)
Not too strange. Imagine the reverse: a C compiler written in Rust. There is an awful lot of software in C that I want to use, but I really dislike C itself. If I found some deficiency in C compilers and felt the need to write my own, I certainly would prefer to write it in Rust.

It would be a C implementation for people who don't like C.

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