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The problem isn't the language, rather the volume of contributions.

Last year, LLVM has reached Linux kernel level of contributions from researchers and compiler vendors.

LLVM in Rust won't have that, and no one is going to rewrite such a massive compiler building infrastructure.

Then we have all the companies that building tooling on top of it, and everything related to the development process that relies on how LLVM is implemented.




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