jyn514/saltwater
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A C compiler written in Rust, with a focus on good error messages.
4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2021-09-08 · latest 2026-02-06
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…(unfinished) https://github.com/ClementTsang/rustcc https://codeberg.org/notgull/dozer (unfinished) https://github.com/jyn514/saltwater I would also like to add that as language models improve (in the sense of decreasing loss on the…
comment by silver_sun · 2026-02-06 · in We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler -
Did you actually look at these? > https://github.com/jyn514/saltwater This is just a frontend. It uses Cranelift as the backend. It's missing some fairly basic language features like bitfields and variadic functions. And if I'm reading the…
comment by jsnell · 2026-02-05 · in We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler -
There are many, here's a simple Google search: https://github.com/jyn514/saltwater https://github.com/ClementTsang/rustcc https://github.com/maekawatoshiki/rucc
comment by rubymamis · 2026-02-05 · in We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler -
…tps://www.utam0k.jp/en/blog/2018/10/12/r9cc/ is a blog post from 2018 that describes it) There's also https://github.com/jyn514/saltwater and https://github.com/ClementTsang/rustcc , but they are inactive. Saltyrust seem pretty complete…
comment by nextaccountic · 2021-09-08 · in Libreddit: Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust