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1. Michel Salim :fedora: :centos: (michel_slm@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Apr-2022 19:56:54 UTC Michel Salim :fedora: :centos:

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   @binarycat @schnedan@kif.rocks @bionade24@mastodon.social @aral ah, that's unfortunate. While I like Plan 9 myself, it's probably a bit too niche to claim a significant loss in portability though?

   The Guix people have a really neat way of bootstrapping GCC and other tools from much simpler compilers, perhaps something similar is a path forward to get a modern C++ compiler in Plan 9

   https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/

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   • Michel Salim :fedora: :centos: (michel_slm@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Apr-2022 19:56:55 UTC Michel Salim :fedora: :centos:

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     @binarycat @schnedan@kif.rocks @bionade24@mastodon.social @aral there's a GCC Rust front-end in the works too, no? https://rust-gcc.github.io/

     Curious which architecture you're interested in that LLVM doesn't yet target. The ones I'm interested in (ARM, RISC-V) are there

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   • tebicat (binarycat@fedi.9til.de)'s status on Saturday, 23-Apr-2022 19:56:55 UTC tebicat

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     @michel_slm @schnedan@kif.rocks @bionade24@mastodon.social @aral
     it's not about arch, it's about os.

     gcc isn't much better in that regard.

     the os i'm interested in is plan9 (9front specifically).

     it lacks a modern c++ compiler, so can't build LLVM.

   • tebicat (binarycat@fedi.9til.de)'s status on Saturday, 23-Apr-2022 19:56:56 UTC tebicat

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     @michel_slm @schnedan@kif.rocks @bionade24@mastodon.social @aral So it now depends on LLVM, significantly reducing portability?

   • Michel Salim :fedora: :centos: (michel_slm@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Apr-2022 19:56:57 UTC Michel Salim :fedora: :centos:

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     @schnedan@kif.rocks @bionade24@mastodon.social @binarycat @aral the speed is getting better with the Rust rewrite: https://lca2021.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/49/