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The std implementation they are using seems to be taken from 2014/2015, pre-1.0 stabilization, from the days when Rust had ~ and @ smart pointer sigils and opt-in garbage collection in the standard library. So definitely not compatible with modern Rust by any stretch.
The main page seem a little bit short. I'd like to know if this effort is any way related to other to projects like https://github.com/antoyo/rustc_codegen_gcc and https://github.com/sapir/gcc-rust and if not how does they differ technically ?
There does exist an incomplete Rust compiler for a subset of the language used to write rustc, for precisely reason b.
(I know you are joking, but:) https://github.com/M680x0/M680x0-llvm
Up-to-date repo: https://github.com/M680x0/M680x0-mono-repo
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