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Maybe referring to the fact that GCCRS duplicates a ton of effort by reimplementing the frontend (parser, borrow checker, error messages etc.) for questionable
by kangalioo 4y ago
Maybe referring to the fact that GCCRS duplicates a ton of effort by reimplementing the frontend (parser, borrow checker, error messages etc.) for questionable benefit since you could keep the existing frontend and just swap out the LLVM backend for GCC (as done by the rustc_codegen_gcc project).
- wtetzner 4y agoThis ignores the benefits of having multiple implementations, e.g. you can use places where two implementations disagree with each other to track down bugs in one or both of them.