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Because they're different languages?

It's more insane to me that one wants the same tool to do everything rather than have different tools for different tasks.

Like should Perl be compiled with GCC just to satisfy that requirement because it's used during the kernel build? That's ridiculous!

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Yeah, you start down this path and one day you end up with compilers for Go, or Ada, or Fortran, or who knows what else. How ridiculous would that be!

PS. GCC stands for “GNU Compiler Collection”. All of the above is already there.

GCC already compiles quite a lot of languages, why not add one to the toolbelt if contributors feel like it?

Even though I think it'd be a bad idea for users of the language to rely on gcc to compile their Rust code, what I'm replying to is the idea that having one compiler for all the languages used in a project is a good idea in the first place.

I don't think you should expect or want that.

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