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0 pointsthe_mitsuhiko7y ago0 comments

How is there no allowance? A lot of people in the community would love a rust compiler that can compile down to C for instance.

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anoncake7y ago

Maybe the tool chain is hardcoded to use the standard compiler? But that's more likely because of YAGNI, not because the rust community hates freedom.

the_mitsuhikoOP7y ago

The toolchain is built on top of rustup which very purpose is managing multiple compilers. If one were to build a different rustc it could be swapped in even in the world we have today.

anoncake7y ago

That's cool. I haven't used Rust yet so I didn't know.

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anoncake7y ago

Maybe the tool chain is hardcoded to use the standard compiler? But that's more likely because of YAGNI, not because the rust community hates freedom.

the_mitsuhikoOP7y ago

The toolchain is built on top of rustup which very purpose is managing multiple compilers. If one were to build a different rustc it could be swapped in even in the world we have today.

anoncake7y ago

That's cool. I haven't used Rust yet so I didn't know.

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