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>feels weird to target C he's not targeting C, he's targeting rust; he's using C it's an important distinction, because he's not writing the C compilers invol
by fsckboy 2y ago
>feels weird to target C
he's not targeting C, he's targeting rust; he's using C
it's an important distinction, because he's not writing the C compilers involved, he's leveraging them to compile his target rust compiler which will be used to compile a rust-on-rust compiler. The C compiler is the compiler he has available, any other solution he would have to write that compiler, but his target is rust.
- IshKebab 2y agoTargeting C as the language to write his Rust compiler in. You knew that.
- fsckboy 2y agoi explained the distinction, i explained why it matters, in great detail, and OP explained it also, sorry you still don't know that. if he "targetted rust" the way you and GP are using it, he would have to duplicate the entire bootstrappable project as his target (my usage)