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Now that's an interesting thought. Since someone was already working on a bootstrapping compiler, I suppose that's the best way, but since the JVM is so high le

Now that's an interesting thought. Since someone was already working on a bootstrapping compiler, I suppose that's the best way, but since the JVM is so high level in general, and doesn't normally have many optimizations at the bytecode level, I almost wonder if it wouldn't be easier to start from one of the early compilers de-compiled into Java instead.

pabs3 6y ago
A de-compiled compiler is not something software freedom purists like the Bootstrappable Builds folks would touch with a 6-foot pole. Their approach is to write secondary smaller implementations of the same thing in other languages and use those to build the larger thing. The seed of their bootstrap less than 1000 bytes of hand-written machine code (not assembly), and they are working on eventually reaching a full Linux distro.