Did you actually look at these?

> https://github.com/jyn514/saltwater

This is just a frontend. It uses Cranelift as the backend. It's missing some fairly basic language features like bitfields and variadic functions. And if I'm reading the documentation right, it requires all the source code to be in a single file...

> https://github.com/ClementTsang/rustcc

This will compile basically no real-world code. The only supported data type is "int".

> https://github.com/maekawatoshiki/rucc

This is just a frontend. It uses LLVM as the backend.

Look at what those compilers are capable of compiling and to which targets, and compare it to what this compiler can do. Those are wonderful, and I have nothing but respect for them, but they aren't going to be compiling the Linux kernel.

Another one:

https://github.com/rustcoreutils/posixutils-rs/tree/main/cc

I found this one too: https://github.com/PhilippRados/wrecc

Ok you can say this about literally any compiler though. The authors of every compiler have intimate knowledge of other compilers, how is this different?

It means that it's not directly copying existing C compiler code which is overwhelmingly not written in Rust. Even if your argument is that it is plagiarizing C code and doing a direct translation to Rust, that's a pretty interesting capability for it to have.

Please don't open a bridge to the Rust flamewar from the AI flamewar :-)