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0 pointsmasklinn9y ago0 comments

> If this wasn't written in Rust I'd adopt it in LLVM!

Would it be possible to translate the Rust code into C++ and thus basically get the Rust safety in C++?

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adrianN9y ago· 1 in thread

Revive the C backend to LLVM that was discontinued in 2012 for being too buggy and compile Rust straight to C.

LLVM is coded in C++, and C++ has higher-level constructs to which Rust constructs should be relatively easy to map safely and with a readable end result.

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