Rust Support Is Being Built into the GNU GCC Compiler

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At this year’s FOSDEM conference, which was held in Brussels, compiler engineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthur-cohen-2b15b5175 delivered a talk on a project based on a single-minded dream: to https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/rust_a_deep_dive_inside_the_rust_frontend_for_gcc/. “We’re actually reimplementing the compiler from scratch,” Cohen told the audience.

And because their new compiler, like GCC itself, is https://thenewstack.io/c-on-the-move/, the team ultimately hopes to backport it into previous versions of GCC.

You’ve got a C compiler, a C++ compiler, a Fortran compiler and so on…

The project started in 2014 as a one-developer project and was revived in 2019 when two companies sponsored the project — https://opensrcsec.com/ and https://www.embecosm.com/.

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