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Rust panics under the hood, and implementing them in .NET
I am currently working on a Rust to .NET compiler, rustc_codegen_clr. To get it to work, I need to implement many Rust features using .NET APIs.
Instead of using LLVM to generate native code, my project turns the internal Rust representation called MIR, into .NET Common Intermediate Language. It makes analyzing control flow almost trivial - since we know that only terminators can change how the code is executed, we don't have to check each statement to figure out the relationships between blocks. The real MIR looks a bit different(no variable names, explicit types of locals, calls that return nothing assign a() value), but this should give you a rough idea about how everything works.
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