wcc VS rust

Compare wcc vs rust and see what are their differences.

wcc

The Witchcraft Compiler Collection (by endrazine)

rust

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. (by rust-lang)
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wcc rust
4 2,683
1,803 92,831
- 2.6%
0.0 10.0
about 1 year ago 7 days ago
C Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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wcc

Posts with mentions or reviews of wcc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-20.
  • Shared Libraries as Executables
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Aug 2022
    rundll32.exe is just a way of doing FFI from as a command -- there are few different options on UNIX-likr systems for that. The most obvious is ctypes.sh [0].

    There are, though, even more sophisticated options than just FFI, like the Witchcraft Compiler Collection [1], which includes among other things an interactive shell.

    [0] https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh

    [1] https://github.com/endrazine/wcc

  • The Witchcraft Compiler Collection
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Mar 2022
  • The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
    5 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 11 Apr 2021
    witchcraft compiler collection
  • This is my style of coding
    1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 18 Jan 2021
    https://github.com/endrazine/wcc - the witchcraft compiler can take a binary and turn it into a shared library that can be loaded by another application. It also comes with a suite of tools that can help you probe an application to figure out its APIs and such.

rust

Posts with mentions or reviews of rust. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-28.
  • Create a Custom GitHub Action in Rust
    3 projects | dev.to | 28 Apr 2024
    If you haven't dipped your touch-typing fingers into Rust yet, you really owe it to yourself. Rust is a modern programming language with features that make it suitable not only for systems programming -- its original purpose, but just about any other environment, too; there are frameworks that let your build web services, web applications including user interfaces, software for embedded devices, machine learning solutions, and of course, command-line tools. Since a custom GitHub Action is essentially a command-line tool that interacts with the system through files and environment variables, Rust is perfectly suited for that as well.
  • Why Does Windows Use Backslash as Path Separator?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Apr 2024
    Here's an example of someone citing a disagreement between CRT and shell32:

    https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44650

    This in addition to the Rust CVE mentioned elsewhere in the thread which was rooted in this issue:

    https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/04/09/cve-2024-24576.html

    Here are some quick programs to test contrasting approaches. I don't have examples of inputs where they parse differently on hand right now, but I know they exist. This was also a problem that was frequently discussed internally when I worked at MSFT.

        #include 
  • I hate Rust (programming language)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2024
    > instead of choosing a certain numbered version of the random library (if I remember correctly) I let cargo download the latest version which had a completely different API.

    Yeah, they didn't follow the instructions and got burned. I still think that multiple things went wrong simultaneously for that experience. I wonder if more prevalent uses of `#[doc(alias = "name")]` being leveraged by https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/120730 (which now that I check only accounts for methods and not functions, I should get on that!) so that when changing APIs around people at least get a slightly better experience.

  • Rust Weird Exprs
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Apr 2024
  • Critical safety flaw found in Rust on Windows (CVE-2024-24576)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2024
  • Unformat Rust code into perfect rectangles
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Apr 2024
    Almost fixed the compiler: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/123325
  • Implement React v18 from Scratch Using WASM and Rust - [1] Build the Project
    5 projects | dev.to | 7 Apr 2024
    Rust: A secure, efficient, and modern programming language (omitting ten thousand words). You can simply follow the installation instructions provided on the official website.
  • Show HN: Fancy-ANSI – Small JavaScript library for converting ANSI to HTML
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2024
    Recently did something similar in Rust but for generating SVGs. We've adopted it for snapshot testing of cargo and rustc's output. Don't have a good PR handy for showing Github's rendering of changes in the SVG (text, side-by-side, swiping) but https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/121877/files has newly added SVGs.

    To see what is supported, see the screenshot in the docs: https://docs.rs/anstyle-svg/latest/anstyle_svg/

  • Upgrading Hundreds of Kubernetes Clusters
    17 projects | dev.to | 3 Apr 2024
    We strongly believe in Rust as a powerful language for building production-grade software, especially for systems like ours that run alongside Kubernetes.
  • What Are Const Generics and How Are They Used in Rust?
    3 projects | dev.to | 25 Mar 2024
    The above Assert<{N % 2 == 1}> requires #![feature(generic_const_exprs)] and the nightly toolchain. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/76560 for more info.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wcc and rust you can also consider the following projects:

sandsifter - The x86 processor fuzzer

carbon-lang - Carbon Language's main repository: documents, design, implementation, and related tools. (NOTE: Carbon Language is experimental; see README)

trapcc - Computing with traps

zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

cmake-raytracer - Ray tracer written in pure CMake

Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

dylibify - Transform any ARM macho executable to a dynamic library

Odin - Odin Programming Language

Elixir - Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications

Rustup - The Rust toolchain installer

rust-analyzer - A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs [Moved to: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer]

go - The Go programming language