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I think they don't consider it self-hosted because only the front-end is written in rust, rustc uses llvm as the back-end, which is not written in rust.
by I_AM_A_SMURF 6y ago
I think they don't consider it self-hosted because only the front-end is written in rust, rustc uses llvm as the back-end, which is not written in rust.
- mlindner 6y agoBy that argument gcc isn't self hosting either because it uses various assembly syntaxes in its code that requires an assembler.