Rust vs C
Rust vs C
Posted Aug 13, 2024 13:55 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)In reply to: Rust vs C by eharris
Parent article: Rust Project goals for 2024
> Q2: Perhaps someone could write a RustToC program......and then we could get back to using gcc or llvm?
I thought Rust *relied* on llvm ...
Cheers,
Wol
Posted Aug 13, 2024 17:30 UTC (Tue)
by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
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Rust vs C
Probably meant clang. But yes, rustc primarily uses LLVM. It has Cranelift (meant for quicker debug builds on x86_64) and a gcc backend (not gccrs) under development. Rust is not beholden to LLVM as a language though.