GCC Gets a New Frontend for Rust

Slashdot reader sleeping cat shares a recent FOSDEM talk by a compiler engineer on the team building Rust-GCC, "an alternative compiler implementation for the Rust programming language."
"If gccrs interprets a program differently from rustc, this is considered a bug," explains the project's FAQ on GitHub.
The FAQ also notes that LLVM's set of compiler technologies — which Rust uses — "is missing some backends that GCC supports, so a GCC Rust implementation can fill in the gaps for us