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rucc
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maekawatoshiki / rucc

rucc

rucc is a tiny toy C compiler in Rust.

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
199GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

rucc is a tiny toy C compiler in Rust.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-02-05 20:10:03 UTC to 2026-02-05 20:29:01 UTC.

0122026-02-05 20:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-05 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsFeb 5, 20:00

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Feb 5, 20:002026-02-05 20:00:00 UTC2026-02-05 21:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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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.
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