On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Josh Haberman <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any prospect of compiling Rust to C anytime in the mid to near > future? > > This would be a really attractive option for anyone who wants to write > in Rust, but wants the extreme portability of C. > > Actually maybe I should first ask if this is actually a tractable > problem. Are there technical reasons that would prevent compiling Rust > into portable C? > > LLVM's C Backend seems to have fallen out of maintenance -- would this > provide the solution I am looking for, if it were maintained? >
FWIW I removed the C Backend a few years ago because it was largely unmaintained. It would likely need to be rewritten from scratch to do this. If you're curious about it, let me know. -eric _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
