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I’m a compiler nerd at the moment. I have an inherent trust of things that bootstrap themselves, as if it means they are conceptually more pure. I’m not sure wh
by mattgreenrocks 6y ago
I’m a compiler nerd at the moment. I have an inherent trust of things that bootstrap themselves, as if it means they are conceptually more pure. I’m not sure whether that is 100% well founded, but it sounds similar to some of these observations. :)
- ReactiveJelly 6y agoI think self-hosting is just a little over-rated for languages. It's good that Rust and C++ are self-hosting, you'd expect those to be languages you can write a compiler in. But Lua and JavaScript satisfy their own niche just fine without having popular runtimes written in themselves.
- TheBrokenRail 6y agoThere are a few JS interpreters written in JS, don't know about Lua.
- mattgreenrocks 6y agoMost languages don't aspire to be so conceptually-complete that they insist on being bootstrapped. Which is fine, I make my living with them. Those that do, however, are immensely beautiful and there is more to be learned from them.