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> Langs like Rust were lucky to compile to the same IR as a cross-platform C compiler. Even then, it was a lot of work to be compatible with MSVC. Alex Crichto
by pcwalton 8y ago
> Langs like Rust were lucky to compile to the same IR as a cross-platform C compiler.
Even then, it was a lot of work to be compatible with MSVC. Alex Crichton spent years on it. Not to mention the dozens of man-years of work that folks from Google put into getting it all to work on the clang/LLVM side.