The conversation over gcc-rs online has always seemed weird to me. These are open source projects that aren't really competing for the same resources, people ar

The conversation over gcc-rs online has always seemed weird to me. These are open source projects that aren't really competing for the same resources, people are free to work on what they find interesting and everyone should support their freedom to do so. That said I think if you had money involved it would be better spent creating LLVM backends than porting yet another language to gcc. I'm not sure "this is time consuming to bootstrap from gcc 4" is a compelling enough argument, at least nowhere near compelling as "this programming language cannot target these processor families because the backend doesn't exist and no one has the time to write one."