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The original Rust compiler was written in… OCaml. Nowadays it's self-hosting.

• feld 11y ago
  And OCaml is written in C. Also, there's an awful lot of llvm involved in compiler-rt on github. To think you can evade C on a Unix box is very wishful thinking. You can't escape C-generated bytecode in your stack. It's bound to be somewhere.
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  • krisdol 11y ago
    Seeing as much of the kernel is written in it, of course. Working efficiently with raw memory pointers requires an unsafe language. Even Windows is written in C/C++