#gccrs — Public Fediverse posts

I am researching "things" for my upcoming Rust For Linux talk, and I stumbled back on these gems from Alex Gaynor and Federico @federicomena

#RustLang #GCCRS #LLVM #RustForLinux

Ported #gcc14 for #MorphOS. The #rust frontend #gccrs works and produces working code, too. The usability of this thing is currently somewhat limited of course as gccrs is still experimental.

the #gccrs ferris with horns is absolute fire

thanks Pierre-Emanuel (Arthur couldn't hold the talk oopsies) for the status update!

@lispi314 sidenote: that #guile bootstrap path was developed for #guix :

GNU Mes (maxwell equations of software) provides a minimal #scheme interpreter and C #compiler with tooling to build #tinycc that can be used with the Mes C library to compile glibc-2.2.5, binutils-2.20.1, gcc-2.95.3 with which you can build the whole #GNU system.

Thanks to #GCCrs that will soon include #Rust

Thanks to #Python on Guile it includes a shortcut for compatible Python-based tooling.
#GCC
@dalias @jschauma

@lispi314 Do you mean something like #GCCrs?

That got a lot of backlash (from lots of people who said that the approach is bad and completely ignored bootstrapping), but they are going through with it and are making good progress: https://rust-gcc.github.io/

(me and others told them again and again that what they are doing is great work and two years ago they finally got funding)

@dalias @jschauma

@carcosa See the side-discussion about #GCCrs and #Guix: https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/109911253196227319 @dthompson

#GCCRust is a #GCC based compiler for #Rust.

#gccrs is a frontend for GCC that allows it compile Rust programs. Being based on GCC allows for typical GCC options like -O2 and plugins targeting GIMPLE to be used normally. gccrs also allows for mixed C and Rust code to be effectively optimized and secured as they are compiled to the same intermediate language.

Website 🔗️: https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs

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