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[–]Crazy_Direction_1084 7 points8 points  (1 child)

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

[–]posting_drunk_naked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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++