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bloppe ◴[07 Dec 25 08:32 UTC] No.46180140[source]▶

Rust compiles to LLVM IR. I'm pretty surprised that building this transpiler was considered a better use of time than writing an LLVM backend for whatever "weird embedded target" might need this.

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1. SkiFire13 ◴[07 Dec 25 10:46 UTC] No.46180773[source]▶

>>46180140 #

Rustc supports backends other than LLVM btw

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2. forgotpwd16 ◴[07 Dec 25 11:50 UTC] No.46181073[source]▶

>>46180773 (TP) #

And someone has made (https://github.com/FractalFir/rustc_codegen_clr) a backend targeting C (alongside .NET/CIL).

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