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A C compiler in two weeks is a difficult, but doable, grad school class project (especially if you use
lexandyaccinstead of hand-coding the parser). And I guarantee 80 hours of grad student time costs less than $20k.Frankly, I'm not impressed with the presentation in your anecdote at all.
Here is the original cite that my company pulled that from if you want more details.
I've never written a compiler, nor in Rust, so I have no idea the effort involved. I'm just boggling over the price tag. I'll bet that's the cost of an entire offshore team.
Yeah, the thing also has limited scope and requires some meddling to point to necessary includes as evidenced by the first issue, afair. And the code produced is subpar I heard