On 12/26/19 6:26 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello!
The programming language Rust has become very popular over the past few years
with many projects rewriting parts of their codebase in that language. While
these rewrites often make the code perform faster and potentially safer, using
Rust makes these projects less portable as Rust is limited to the architectures
supported by LLVM which are less than the ones supported by GCC.
For this reason, people have been asking for a Rust frontend for GCC similar to
the one for Go. Now, there are actually two independent implementation of a Rust
frontend for GCC [1, 2] being developed and I was wondering whether it would be
desirable to help this development with a Bountysource campaign?
I'm asking because I'm not sure whether GCC upstream would be okay having a Rust
frontend in GCC at all and, if yes, it would be okay to have a Bountysource
campaign
for that project?
The acceptability requirements would not be affected by such a campaign. I
suppose the 'are you going to carry on supporting this' question could be
colored by it, but many GCC additions have been accepted, even though they were
by contributors explicitly paid for the addition.
Personally, a Rust FE is an exciting idea.
nathan
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Nathan Sidwell
