> I can’t imagine writing everything in C I will say that C is a perfect low level language for bootstrapping more complex systems and languages. If I were bui

> I can’t imagine writing everything in C I will say that C is a perfect low level language for bootstrapping more complex systems and languages. If I were building a bootstrap compiler I would write it in C and have it emit C. Specifically C89/99 ONLY with no POSIX/GNU deps. that will guarantee a large swath of compiler and system support out of the box.