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A home for compiler team planning documents, meeting minutes, and other such things.

19 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 4 stories, 15 comments · first 2021-01-11 · latest 2025-12-12

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  1. …them, and 32-bit cross building is hampered by Xcode 14 not shipping the corresponding SDK[3]. 1: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/556 2: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support/app... 3:…
    comment by estebank · 2025-12-12 · in The Tor Project is switching to Rust
  2. …Windows XP, after other parts of ecosystem generally gave up. This was because Firefox needed it. https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/378 (major change proposal to drop Windows XP support) notes this history and links to…
    comment by sanxiyn · 2025-11-18 · in Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions
  3. …using sandboxed WASM for proc macros, but it'll be some time before there's any movement there: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/876
    comment by Philpax · 2025-08-19 · in How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos
  4. "m68k-unknown-linux-gnu" was merged as a Tier-3 target for Rust, wasn't it? [0] [0] https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/458
    comment by shakna · 2025-04-12 · in Rust to C compiler – 95.9% test pass rate, odd platforms
  5. …to cancel the outstanding tasks or closing the open sockets. Async Drop is currently experimental: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/727
    comment by fnord123 · 2024-10-30 · in Async Rust is not safe with io_uring
  6. …you’re not implicitly depending on the order. https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/type-layout.html https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/457
    comment by mirashii · 2024-05-29 · in Writing an NVMe Driver in Rust [pdf]
  7. …There's even an unstable flag to help catch incorrect assumptions about struct layout. https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/457
    comment by fl0ki · 2024-04-19 · in The Rust calling convention we deserve
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    Rust proposal for ABI for higher-level languages
    story by oaimtiaz1 · 2024-04-13 · 1 comment
  9. Are you talking about https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/688 ? I think that issue provides a lot of interesting context for this specific improvement.
    comment by loeg · 2024-02-18 · in The Linux Kernel Prepares for Rust 1.77 Upgrade
  10. …recently dumped support for after their attempt to extort funding/resources from Loongson failed: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/648 This is the biggest problem with the LLVM mentality: they use architecture support as a…
    comment by crotchfire · 2023-12-19 · in Progress toward a GCC-based Rust compiler
  11. ▲ 1
    Rust: Drop MIPS to Tier 3
    story by rettichschnidi · 2023-11-16 · 0 comments
  12. …be created for older versions of Windows if members of the community will step up to support it. https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/651
    comment by veber-alex · 2023-08-24 · in Rust 1.72.0
  13. …this". So if you care for these targets, you'll have to contribute to keep it maintained. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/651 [2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustc/target-tier-policy.html
    comment by jacoblambda · 2023-08-24 · in Rust 1.72.0
  14. …IBM employees appeared on Rust's issue tracker and reported their intention to port Rust to AIX. https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/553
    comment by sanxiyn · 2022-09-20 · in It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++
  15. …enough. I did a little more digging and it seems you can dynamically link rust binaries too now: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/422
    comment by dijit · 2021-09-18 · in Alpine Linux: Proposal to move Rust to main
  16. Any news about the potential license issue? https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/442#issuec...
    comment by tym0 · 2021-07-09 · in Rust GCC back end was officially accepted into the compiler
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    Rust GCC back end was officially accepted into the compiler
    story by pjmlp · 2021-07-08 · 27 comments
  18. …the Rust Compiler Team is discussing upstreaming it (just the Rust part, not libgccjit itself): https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/442
    comment by kibwen · 2021-07-06 · in Libgccjit AOT Codegen for Rustc
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    Rust drops official support for Windows XP
    story by jayflux · 2021-01-11 · 0 comments