[steveklabnik]

You can use the cranelift backend, written in Rust, if you prefer. Nothing about LLVM being the best choice by default has to do with the choice of implementation language.

[Vecr]

Or more likely for something that needs to be high performance mrustc, but you obviously have to be careful there.

[steveklabnik]

mrustc is written in C++, so I don't see how it's a counter to what the parent is proposing. I also don't know anything about mrustc's performance characteristics, I didn't think performance was a goal, but it's also been a while since I've checked in on it.

[Vecr]

Oh right, I don't even know if there's a C compiler that's not written in C++ that can compile the output of mrustc anyway, so there's that.