A while back I said it would be really nice for bootstrapping if there was a Rust compiler or interpreter written in C. Of course, that would be ridiculous.
But it’s worth trying.
I’ve written a tokenizer for Rust in pure C. I’ve tested it on a few Rust crates and it seems to work. Now moving on to the syntax tree parser.
Effectively rewriting the syn crate in C, with no real tools (no yacc!). I’ll probably give up on this eventually, but let’s see how far I can push it.
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