alt Hacker News> t would be great if those wannabe C++ replacements were fully bootstraped
This would require (re)writing the OS in the replacement language
Also need assembler to be taken seriously, which Rust can’t do last I checked
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pjmlp • yesterday at 3:28 PM
Nah, they could start by not depending on LLVM/GCC and do their whole compiler back to back.
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Can you explain the assembler bit? Are you talking about the handling of inline assembly? I though Rust allowed that in unsafe code.