Eurydice
Shares rank 2 of 6 transpilers by recommenders
Free Rust to C compiler that outputs readable C and can link shared and static executables. Main caveat: it adds an extra translation step to deal with.
Free Rust to C compiler that outputs readable C and can link shared and static executables. Main caveat: it adds an extra translation step to deal with.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 80%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Cool, useful project
“Cool, loved this! These tools would be needed in the near future to manage the tech debt safe rust is compounding.”
Comment from 7 Dec 2025 in “Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler” “The project itself is cool and useful”
Comment from 7 Dec 2025 in “Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler” Useful for bootstrapping Rust compiler
“this sounds great for a full source bootstrap of the rust compiler”
Comment from 10 Oct 2026 in “Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice” “This link is also a brilliant intro to Eurydice”
Comment from 10 Oct 2026 in “Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Adds an extra translation step
“It's still not great as you now have an additional translation step to deal with.”
Comment from 7 Dec 2025 in “Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler”
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The four most recommended other transpilers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
See all 6 transpilers, rankedWhat people said
All 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“This link is also a brilliant intro to Eurydice”
“If readability is the selling point, why not go the extra millimeter and add a heuristic so that this variable is named return_value”
“this sounds great for a full source bootstrap of the rust compiler”
“this effectively writes a backend for all the weird targets at once”
“You can create and link to shared objects and create statically or dynamically linked executables.”
“The project itself is cool and useful”
“its nice to see the Reverse”
“I'm pretty surprised that building this transpiler was considered a better use of time”
“Cool, loved this! These tools would be needed in the near future to manage the tech debt safe rust is compounding.”
“It's still not great as you now have an additional translation step to deal with.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.