It wrote the compiler in Rust. As far as I know, there aren't any Rust based C compilers with the same capabilities. If you can find one that can compile the Linux kernel or get 99% on the GCC torture test suite, I would be quite surprised. I couldn't in a search.

Maybe read the article before being so dismissive.

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hgs3 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> As far as I know, there aren't any Rust based C compilers with the same capabilities.

If you trained on a neutral representation like an AST or IR, then the source language shouldn't matter. *

* I'm not familiar with how Anthropic builds their models, but training this way should nullify PL differences.

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falloutx 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why does language of the compiler matter? Its a solved problem and since other implementations are already available anyone can already transpile them to rust.

	▲	Rudybega 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Direct transpilation would create a ton of unsafe code (this repo doesn't have any) and fixing that would require a lot of manual fixes from the model. Even that would be a massive achievement, but it's not how this was created.