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by zturner 4166 days ago
Minor implications, perhaps. Much of what was done to reach this point was just making LLDB not fall over miserably on Windows. Like, to compile.. Or to not crash on startup for example :)

Anyone who decides they're interested in making Rust programs debuggable with LLDB will be able to benefit from this work by not having to do it. Also a core debug loop is going to be the same on Windows no matter what programming language is being debugged. I don't know what Rust's generated code looks like, but presumably it will be able to reuse the core debug loop and symbol reading code to some extent, although it will need to deal with ABI specific differences, put in its own expression evaluator, and things like that.

TL;DR - Someone from the Rust community will still have their work cut out for them, but if they're so motivated then they at least some of the work done here will benefit them.