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C++ being a standard, you don't need to rebuild the world to develop your compiler. That being said, there is nothing preventing something similar with C++. I
by pnako 7y ago
C++ being a standard, you don't need to rebuild the world to develop your compiler.
That being said, there is nothing preventing something similar with C++.
In fact, that's pretty much what Linux distributions and BSDs do when upgrading the compiler, see for example
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240629 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240629
- Dylan16807 7y agoHow it's standardized doesn't matter. And neither language 'needs' it. But it would be just as useful to C++ compiler devs as it is to Rust.