Comment by kgeist

8 hours ago

If we take the most popular programming languages and look at what their reference (or most popular) implementations are written in, then we get:

  C++: JavaScript (V8), Java, C#

  C: Python, PHP, Lua, Ruby

  Self-hosted: Go, Rust

Far from archaic indeed. We're still living in the C/C++ world.

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kgeist

I thought Rust still used LLVM (a C++ project) for the backend, did they already switch to Cranelift?