Hello! The programming language Rust has become very popular over the past few years with many projects rewriting parts of their codebase in that language. While these rewrites often make the code perform faster and potentially safer, using Rust makes these projects less portable as Rust is limited to the architectures supported by LLVM which are less than the ones supported by GCC.
For this reason, people have been asking for a Rust frontend for GCC similar to the one for Go. Now, there are actually two independent implementation of a Rust frontend for GCC [1, 2] being developed and I was wondering whether it would be desirable to help this development with a Bountysource campaign? I'm asking because I'm not sure whether GCC upstream would be okay having a Rust frontend in GCC at all and, if yes, it would be okay to have a Bountysource campaign for that project? I personally like the idea of a Rust frontend for GCC very much as I expect more software projects in the future to adopt Rust and I would like to be able to build and use these projects on architectures that LLVM doesn't support yet (and might not even in the future). Due to the popularity of Rust and the desire of the community for an independent implementation, I expect the Bountysource campaign to be rather successful. Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://github.com/redbrain/gccrs > [2] https://github.com/sapir/gcc-rust/tree/rust -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
