Re: [rust-dev] Rust front-end to GCC

[Brian Anderson <banderson at mozilla dot com>]

On 12/03/2013 09:22 AM, Philip Herron wrote:
> Hey all
>
> Some of you may have noticed the gccrs branch on the git mirror. Since 
> PyCon IE 2013 i gave a talk on my Python Front-end pet project and 
> heard about rust by a few people and i never really looked at it 
> before until then but i've kind of been hooked since.
>
> So to learn the language i've been writing this front-end to GCC. Only 
> really a a month or  so on and off work in between work. Currently it 
> compiles alot of rust already in fairly little effort on my side GCC 
> is doing loads of the heavy lifting.
>
> Currently it compiles most of the basic stuff such as a struct an impl 
> block while loop, functions expressions calling methods passing 
> arguments etc. Currently focusing on getting the typing working 
> correctly to support & and ~ and look at how templates might work as 
> well as need to implement break and return.
>
> There is still a lot of work but i would really like to share it and 
> see what people think. Personally i think rust will target GCC very 
> well and be a good addition (if / when it works). I really want to try 
> and give back to this community who have been very good to me in 
> learning over the last few years with GSOC.

This is very exciting work. I'm looking forward to following your progress.