🔧 I Built a Rust Compiler for a 20-Year-Old Mac (Borrow Checker and All)

Modern Rust does not compile for PowerPC Mac OS X Tiger. The newest compiler that runs natively on Tiger is GCC 4.0.1 from 2005. LLVM abandoned PowerPC years ago. The official Rust compiler has never targeted this platform.

So I wrote one.

rust-ppc-tiger is a Rust-to-PowerPC compiler written in C. It parses Rust source code, enforces ownership...