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crustc: Entirety of rustc, translated to C

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novelty
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Translating rustc to C is novel and technically impressive, tangentially relevant to open source.

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Entirety of `rustc`, translated to C. . Contribute to FractalFir/crustc development by creating an account on GitHub.
Summary

FractalFir's crustc project translates rustc 1.98.0-nightly into 46 million lines of C, buildable with GCC and make, targeting ARM64 Linux. It showcases the cilly toolchain—the 14th attempt at compiling Rust to C—which adapts to any C compiler via witness programs and supports network-transparent cross-compilation to solve the bootstrap paradox for legacy platforms.

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FractalFir