Hacker News Reader

Rust and the PS4 toolchain are both LLVM. So I can see some possibility there. Rust currently runs on it's own patchset now, but the intention is to be fully working with mainline LLVM.

View on HN

There is currently only one custom patch on top of LLVM[1] and it's just a performance one, not required for semantics.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/llvm/commits/rust-llvm-2014-05-...

Does Rust's patches affect codegen? Hypothetically, if not, you should be able to just feed the IL files into the PS4 toolchain.

As dbaupp said it's only an optimisation. So you should be able to use mainline LLVM now. Therefore using PS4 with Rust wouldn't be too complicated.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com