anthropics/claudes-c-compiler

Claude Opus 4.6 wrote a dependency-free C compiler in Rust, with backends targeting x86 (64- and 32-bit), ARM, and RISC-V, capable of compiling a booting Linux kernel.

59 best points · 42 comments · 3 Hacker News posts · 2,826 GitHub stars · View on GitHub

Hacker News discussions

• Hello world does not compile (59 points, 42 comments, by mfiguiere, 2026-02-07)
• Hunting for traces of chibicc in Claude's C compiler (3 points, 0 comments, by silver_sun, 2026-02-21)
• Dependency-free C compiler in Rust, written by Opus 4.6 (1 points, 0 comments, by vinhnx, 2026-02-06)