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Re:Usability Improvements in GCC 15 by mort96 on Thursday April 10, 2025 @04:17PM (#43647667)
And gccrs is not really very widely used and is not the "official" Rust compiler. The Rust project chose to base their compiler on LLVM, for good technical reasons. That's bad news for the GCC project.
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Re:Usability Improvements in GCC 15 by tmiku on Thursday April 10, 2025 @06:57PM (#43648761)
I thought that most FOSS projects took multiple compiler implementations as a sign of a healthy language environment, without much prestige associated with being the "premier" compiler and instead having more of an it-takes-a-village attitude. Granted, I'm mostly extrapolating from Go and Python here - is it a sharper divide in the Rust community?
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Re:Usability Improvements in GCC 15 by mort96 on Friday April 11, 2025 @01:53AM (#43650873)
No, and I think the gccrs project is great and a sign that the language is maturing. I'm just saying that LLVM was chosen instead of GCC to build the official Rust compiler for very good technical reasons, and that ought to worry GCC.
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