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> Either way, it seems like a nightmare compared to keeping it in plain old C and building with any compiler of your choice. Just Imagine if any project did thi
by nicoburns 4y ago
> Either way, it seems like a nightmare compared to keeping it in plain old C and building with any compiler of your choice. Just Imagine if any project did this, like, building Firefox now requires an existing Firefox installation.
But this is exactly the same for C! Building C compiler requires an existing C compiler. C compilers are admittedly more widely available at the moment, but that probably won't be the case forever. Languages like zig aim to supplant C. How are they supposed to do that when they're directly dependent on C?