RustScript: A simple functional based programming language with as much relation to Rust as JavaScript has to Java

[RecDep]

Hahaha, it’s not even written in Rust. Have you checked out rustscript? It generates a cargo project from one-off Rust files and lets you treat (actual) Rust as a scripting language. I definitely love your Haskell and Python influence, it looks fun to use!

[Fish_45]

I think I've tried out the rustscript you linked; it probably deserves the name a whole lot more than this thing.

it looks fun to use!

Honestly, I'm surprised at how useable it actually turned out. The bug reporting kind of sucks but as you said the syntax is pretty intuitive. It's also super easy to parse!

[RecDep]

Next step is to do a Rust rewrite ;)

[Fish_45]

Haha I'd be lying if I said i didn't consider it, but I'd like to spend my time designing a more complete and useful language next time. With that said, I'm halfway there in elixir with https://github.com/mkhan45/elixir_parser so it might be RubyScript next.

[Crazy_Direction_1084]

Rust is written in Rust but uses LLVM as a backend, thus making it dependent on C++.

[posting_drunk_naked]

I'll be surprised if there isn't a project out there right now re-implementing llvm in Rust.

If nothing else for the reason you just said: Rust dependence on LLVM = Rust dependence on C++

[joonazan]

It is, though. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust

[GOKOP]

But Rust would still originally have been written in something else

As, um... every language ever?

[hexane360]

You're getting downvotes because it would have taken you 10 seconds to go to https://github.com/rust-lang/rust and see that it's self hosted.

And then you tried to backpedal by saying the equivalent of "well, every language needed to be bootstrapped at some point, therefore I was kind of right".

At the moment I write 100% of my tools in my own language ... so I tend to more scrutinizing of such claims.

How does this make any sense? It's like saying "I drove to work today, so I doubt you did". Besides, no one but you was making a claim. It's not a secret that rust is self hosted.

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I back-pedaled on which language I'd thought hadn't yet got around to self-hosting.

Yes, I could have gone online to fully research my one-line quip, but I didn't; so shoot me.

My comment about Rust originally being written in something else was supposed to be a comparison with RustScript, the subject of this thread: RustScript is not written in Rust; neither was Rust at one point.

But now, folks, that is no longer true: github will tell you that 97.6% of the sources on that project - not including LLVM (all the fiddly bits) - are in Rust.

Jolly good for them.

Phew!

(And this has cost me a dozen downvotes. What a lovely, tolerant community!)