Rust edges toward CPython and older platforms won't like it

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I wonder if a Rust backend generating C code wouldn’t be a nice workaround for platforms without first tier Rust support. With all compile time assurances from the Rust front end, it’d be able to produce C at a superhuman level of memory safety.

I just came across this project recently https://github.com/AeneasVerif/eurydice/ from Microsoft Azure Research (referenced here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/rewriting-symc...)

Fascinating. I wonder why they didn’t make it a LLVM backend, but, then, I guess it’s important for the C code to be readable as well.

Title I see: "CPython may go Rusty, but older platforms risk getting iced out"

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