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I'm curious, would it have been easier to change design decisions if you hadn't bootstrapped it?

• breuleux 11y ago
  Probably a little, but I don't think it would have made a big difference. It takes a certain amount of code before it becomes clear that the design has a flaw, and it's going to be the same amount of effort to adapt it, whether that code is in the compiler or elsewhere. A bootstrapped compiler just requires a bit more boilerplate in the transition.