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Why am I writing a Rust compiler in C? (notgull.net)
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[–] FizzyOrange 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Operating system interfaces use the C ABI, but they don't require you to use C.

Actually that's true on most OSes, but not Linux - that uses syscalls as its interface not function calls to a shared library, so it's the syscall ABI.

I still feel like designing and bootstrapping your own higher level language is going to be less painful overall than writing a Rust compiler in C. And probably more fun.