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Haven't the go folks achieved this as well? IIRC their entire toolchain is written in Go.

• pjmlp 6y ago
  It was bootstraped via the Plan 9 compilers. Go has multiple implementations, only the reference one is pure Go, gogcc and the llvm variants are naturally a mix of Go and C++.
  • est31 6y ago
    Yeah I was referring to the reference toolchain. Not very deep in the go ecosystem, but I presume it's the one which has most use? Regarding the bootstrapping point, rustc was bootstrapped via a "rustboot" compiler written in ocaml. Doesn't make the rust compiler any less rust now, as it compiles itself nowadays (to be precise, version N compiles version N+1, and also supports compiling version N, at least for bootstrap purposes).
    • pjmlp 6y ago
      My point was more to make it clear that language != implementation, hence the various ones for Go.
      • est31 6y ago
        Indeed, those two aren't the same concepts, but the person I replied to said "It finally possible to make Linux binaries in a high level language not involving anything written in C at build-time or run-time", so mainly referring to the possibility instead of all implementations being that way. For go I didn't want to go into further detail then as I assumed the "default go experience" entails only the official Go toolchain.
        • pjmlp 6y ago
          Fair enough.