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Re:GCC now includes Modula-2 and Rust. Do they work on OpenBSD? by locusofself on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @02:01AM (#34062569)
Stupid question, but doesn't rust have it's own, highly praised compiler? I'm just genuinely curious - would using gcc be better under any practical circumstance? Do they both generate low level code with/for LLVM?
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Re:GCC now includes Modula-2 and Rust. Do they work on OpenBSD? by rob74 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @02:22AM (#34062701)
Rust-GCC has an FAQ section that lists the benefits of having a GCC frontend:

https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Ques...

I'm in no way a compiler expert, but from what I understood, they specifically want to avoid mixing GCC and LLVM: https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Ques...

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Re:GCC now includes Modula-2 and Rust. Do they work on OpenBSD? by kramerger on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @02:20AM (#34062680)
Actually, if they can provide a stable release with the most important nightly features I might pick this over rustc.

The rust team don't seem to understand anything about production software, quality assurance and maintenance. Hopefully competing with a more organised compiler with TLS support that is not crippled will put some pressure on them.

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Re:GCC now includes Modula-2 and Rust. Do they work on OpenBSD? by mlindner on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @03:28AM (#34063150)
You can also use rustc as a frontend to GCC through rustc_codegen_gcc.

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

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