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Re:The Case for Rust in the base system by duped on Sunday January 21, 2024 @02:46PM (#39082223)
If by "modern" you mean "LLVM" then I'm sure the chip vendors will get right on it when they have a GCC backend that works and all of their customers use it.
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Re:The Case for Rust in the base system by boricj on Sunday January 21, 2024 @03:13PM (#39082544)
There is a Rust front-end for GCC that is under active development [1]. If the chip vendors are not willing to develop and upstream a LLVM back-end then they can start contributing to it as an alternative.

[1] https://rust-gcc.github.io/

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Re:The Case for Rust in the base system by refulgentis on Sunday January 21, 2024 @03:21PM (#39082628)
> If the chip vendors are not willing to develop and upstream a LLVM back-end

oh, my sweet summer child...

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Re:The Case for Rust in the base system by duped on Sunday January 21, 2024 @05:38PM (#39083816)
You've got the prioritization backwards
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