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Are there modern-day examples of impressive bootstrapping? APFS comes to mind.

• nom 5y ago
  maybe Minecraft?
• jason-phillips 5y ago
  > Are there modern-day examples of impressive bootstrapping? JavaScript and Brendan Eich may be considered modernish-day.
  • emptyparadise 5y ago
    Would be quite poetic if that was the last example.
• zerr 5y ago
  First Pascal compiler was written in Pascal and hand-compiled to machine code.
  • pjmlp 5y ago
    And P-Code was never meant for an interpreter, Niklaus Wirth originally created it to ease the bootstrapping of Pascal into other systems, it was UCSD that made it popular beyond the original goal.
• drno123 5y ago
  Maybe git, and JavaScript?