- has designed the Mezzo programming language in his Ph.D. thesis and

- has worked on generating user-friendly C automatically. Most tools that generate C output pretty unreadable/unmaintainable code that you won't like to maintain, so this is a much under-researched topic.

    rustc_codegen_clr is an experimental Rust compiler backend(plugin), which allows you to transpile Rust into .NET assemblies, or C source files.[0]

Cryptography is already difficult to write in high level languages without introducing side channels via timing, branch predictor, caches etc.

Cryptography while going through two high level compilers, especially when the code was not designed and written to do so is an exercise fraught with peril.

Tbf, this is just nitpicking about the article, not the project itself

Ooof I remember when everything used to be like this. Cargo has really spoiled me.

In fact he turned king Polydectes and all of his followers into stone when he went back to Sephiros.

Perseus defeated Medusa by not looking at her in the eyes.

Rust in a sense, allow you to solve problems without having to look directly at memory unsafe behavior.

I would have called this project "Medusa".

By default, this is only in debug mode. I recently forgot to add it to release mode on a project, and was surprised when I broke the CI (tests run in debug, I only tested in release mode).

Seems like the kind of thing that happens before a language is natively supported by a compiler.

https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc