GCC Rust Approved by Steering Committee, Beta Likely Next April

Phoronix reports:The GCC Steering Committee has approved of the GCC Rust front-end providing Rust programming language support by the GNU Compiler Collection. This Rust front-end will likely be merged ahead of the GCC 13 release next year. The GCC Steering Committee this morning has announced that the Rust front-end "GCC Rust" is appropriate for inclusion into the GCC mainline code-base. This is the effort that has been in the works for a while as an alternative to Rust's official LLVM-based compiler. GCC Rust is still under active development but is getting into shape for mainlining. The hope is to have at least "beta" level support for the Rust programming language in GCC 13, which will be released as stable around April of next year.

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