lipstick: a Rust-like syntax frontend for C

1. lipstick

   1 2 91 0.0 Rust

   You _can_ put lipstick on a pig

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3. mrustc

   2 75 2,229 9.7 C++

   Alternative rust compiler (re-implementation)

   

   Another way to "turn off the borrow checker" is to compile with mrustc: https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc

4. corrode

   3 3 2,156 0.0 Haskell

   C to Rust translator

   Some intersection with https://github.com/jameysharp/corrode in theory right? Maybe it's saner actually to start with corrode-to-lipstick (there has to be a good project name here) and then it's perhaps easier to turn lipstick into safe Rust?

5. llvm-cbe

   4 14 867 6.6 C++

   resurrected LLVM "C Backend", with improvements

   

   I'm really surprised that the LLVM C backends have continually been resurrected then abandoned over the years. It's a good solution to this sort of thing and would enable a lot of cool stuff like Rust to weird embedded platforms. The most recent one is the Julia backend: https://github.com/JuliaComputingOSS/llvm-cbe

6. datatype99

   5 30 1,388 5.4 C

   Algebraic data types for C99

   

   I've done something similar with Datatype99 and Interface99. They are like a macro eDSL that compiles to C. The first one features algebraic data types, the second one features interfaces.

7. interface99

   6 15 310 5.2 C

   Full-featured interfaces for C99

   

   I've done something similar with Datatype99 and Interface99. They are like a macro eDSL that compiles to C. The first one features algebraic data types, the second one features interfaces.

8. c2rust

   7 49 4,102 9.4 Rust

   Migrate C code to Rust

   

   I think the most advanced approach for C to Rust currently is https://github.com/immunant/c2rust. But year I had the idea of having a rustly compile to C intermediate language as well. C2Rust currently does a massive transpile step in the beginning. I am not sure if lipstick has the right properties for this though, but having a language that compiles back to C would allow for a gradual translation.

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