mrustc VS gccrs

Compare mrustc vs gccrs and see what are their differences.

mrustc

Alternative rust compiler (re-implementation) (by thepowersgang)

gccrs

GCC Front-End for Rust (by philberty)
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mrustc gccrs
75 1
2,069 4
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9.0 0.0
5 days ago almost 3 years ago
C++
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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mrustc

Posts with mentions or reviews of mrustc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.

gccrs

Posts with mentions or reviews of gccrs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-20.
  • What is Rust written in ?
    7 projects | /r/rust | 20 Oct 2021
    Rust currently has one fully working compiler, rustc. There's a project to add a Rust frontend to GCC, which would make GCC able to compile Rust. That is written in C and C++, not Rust. C++ was bootstrapped from C, and C was bootstrapped from B, which was bootstrapped from GE 635 assembly.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mrustc and gccrs you can also consider the following projects:

gccrs - GCC Front-End for Rust

llvm-cbe - resurrected LLVM "C Backend", with improvements

rust-ttapi

miri - An interpreter for Rust's mid-level intermediate representation

gcc-rust - a (WIP) Rust frontend for gcc / a gcc backend for rustc

winlamb - A lightweight modern C++11 library for Win32 API, using lambdas to handle Windows messages.

ponyc - Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language

rustls - A modern TLS library in Rust

reference - The Rust Reference

polonius - Defines the Rust borrow checker.

rustc_codegen_cranelift - Cranelift based backend for rustc

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.