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Why am I writing a Rust compiler in C? (notgull.net)
submitted 2 months ago by thomask@lemmy.sdf.org to c/rust@programming.dev
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[โ€“] Giooschi@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

compile rust 0.7 in scala

Not sure if there was another rewrite, but AFAIK (and the article agrees with me) rustc was originally written in Ocaml

[โ€“] underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, I wrote the wrong language. I tend to lump those together in my head as 'big multi-paradigm languages I haven't bothered to learn yet.'