> We didn't have to write the compiler though! That is an amazing part of this story too. As noted in the article, the compiler was written in OCaml. If you fo

> We didn't have to write the compiler though! That is an amazing part of this story too. As noted in the article, the compiler was written in OCaml. If you follow links, the compiler emits assembly which is then assembled by an assembler written in Python. I think developing the compiler in a more productive language (certainly for writing compilers) than C greatly helped.