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C2Rust with Stephen Crane

Rustacean Station

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How Does MScripten Work?

A normal compiler has a front end, a parser that parses your human readable source code. And then there's a series of passes that take that AST and transform it into LVM IR. This is an intermediate representation that sort of language and machine agnostic. We're after something different, we're aftermizing for readability. So rather than going through that whole pipeline and getting something very, very far from the source code, we actually interpose right at the front end.

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