saltwater

> this isn't just a matter of teasing out the compressed C compiler written in Rust that's already on the internet (where?) A quick search brings up several C compilers written in Rust. I'm not claiming they are necessarily in Claude's training data, but they do exist. https://github.com/PhilippRados/wrecc (unfinished) https://github.com/ClementTsang/rustcc https://codeberg.org/notgull/dozer (unfinished) https://github.com/jyn514/saltwater I would also like to add that as language models improve (in the sense of decreasing loss on the training set), they in fact become better at compressing their training data ("the Internet"), so that a model that is "half a terabyte" could represent many times more concepts with the same amount of space. Only comparing the relative size of the internet vs a model may not make this clear.

Did you actually look at these? > https://github.com/jyn514/saltwater This is just a frontend. It uses Cranelift as the backend. It's missing some fairly basic language features like bitfields and variadic functions. And if I'm reading the documentation right, it requires all the source code to be in a single file... > https://github.com/ClementTsang/rustcc This will compile basically no real-world code. The only supported data type is "int". > https://github.com/maekawatoshiki/rucc This is just a frontend. It uses LLVM as the backend.

There are many, here's a simple Google search: https://github.com/jyn514/saltwater https://github.com/ClementTsang/rustcc https://github.com/maekawatoshiki/rucc

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18693321 Show HN: Toy C Compiler written in Rust (the repo is https://github.com/utam0k/r9cc and https://www.utam0k.jp/en/blog/2018/10/12/r9cc/ is a blog post from 2018 that describes it) There's also https://github.com/jyn514/saltwater and https://github.com/ClementTsang/rustcc, but they are inactive. Saltyrust seem pretty complete though.