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Why am I writing a Rust compiler in C? (notgull.net)
submitted 11 months ago by thomask@lemmy.sdf.org to c/rust@programming.dev
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[โ€“] Giooschi@lemmy.world 7 points 11 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 11 months ago* (last edited 8 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.'