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		monoideism on April 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux ker... > As all the static checking will still be done with rustc, it doesn't need to be a full compiler. So then this is just a backend?

Gaelan on April 15, 2021 [–]

If you're talking about gccrs, no, it's a full reimplementation. I think your parent is saying developers can use rustc (including its borrow checker) while iterating, then produce the release builds using gccrs from code that is known to borrow check.

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