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Rust: The New LLVM

https://willcrichton.net/notes/rust-the-new-llvm/

by denisw • 6 years ago

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papaf• 6 years ago

This is a cunning plan. If someone writes a language that targets Rust instead of LLVM there will a language that compiles slower than Rust.

HelloNurse• 6 years ago

So the Rust compiler can be the basis of a compiler provided the language is exactly like Rust and if complex changes for the benefit of reusing compiler internals are implemented. Not exactly a value proposition.

A lot of ideas we take for granted in our programming languages like loops, closures, and enums (sum types), have to be re-implemented every time a new language compiles to LLVM

If you don't want to implement the low-level building blocks of your programming language, why don't you just generate Rust code instead of attempting to write a compiler?

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