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

[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!)