GCC Rust Approved By Steering Committee, Likely To Land For GCC 13

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GCC Rust Approved By Steering Committee, Likely To Land For GCC 13

The GCC Steering Committee has approved of the GCC Rust front-end providing Rust programming language support by the GNU Compiler Collection. This Rust front-end will likely be merged ahead of the GCC 13 release next year...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...st-SC-Approved

[Sin2x]

Should have been Zig (or nothing, nothing works for me too). Rust is an overhyped buzzword pushed by the corporations and their zombified zealots.

[Ironmask]

Should have been Zig (or nothing, nothing works for me too). Rust is an overhyped buzzword pushed by the corporations and their zombified zealots.

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[babali]

What's the benefit of having a GCC port?

[CochainComplex]

What's the benefit of having a GCC port?

I would assume easier adoptable for buildtools. Just one Compiler collection with its quirks.

[Mordrag]

Should have been Zig (or nothing, nothing works for me too). Rust is an overhyped buzzword pushed by the corporations and their zombified zealots.

I would guess you have done extensive analysis on Rust and can enlighten us all why Rust is so bad ?
Please continue with praising C for their great (non-existent) stable ABI and that you just need
'good' programmers to write 'good' code.
I mean all those noobs writing Rust can't just write good C right ? \s

What's the benefit of having a GCC port?

Bootstraple builds in systems like guix or nixos,
broader architecture support
and i would guess it makes it easier to combine c/c++ with rust

[ssokolow]

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[kpedersen]

What's the benefit of having a GCC port?

In many ways this is one of the big strengths of C and C++. It has literally hundreds of different compilers from different vendors.
This in itself is important because:

• Prevents the sole vendor from being bought by Microsoft and being ruined like everything else
• Forces a stronger standard (and a deeper analysis of a standard) so vendors can implement theirs based on it
• Sharing all the positive points from different vendors (I feel like AddressSanitizer is one of these examples; mudflap wasn't quite as adopted).

[Ironmask]

What's the benefit of having a GCC port?

Aside from other points made in this thread, and the general benefits of software diversity, I think the driving factor is allowing Rust in Linux, since GCC is still by far the primary compiler for Linux even if LLVM works with it now.

[babali]

Are rust/llvm and rust/gcc sharing the front-end?
How much latency between one release with llvm and one release with gcc?
What are the consequences for cargo?