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torginuslast Sunday at 1:26 PM0 repliesview on HN

There are many kinds of IRs in compilers - I'm not familiar with how Rust works, but for example GCC has an intermediate representation called GENERIC, which is a C-like language that preserves the scoping and loops and branches of the inputted C code.

Lower level representations also exist - since C has goto, you can pretty much turn any SSA IR to C, but the end result won't be readable.