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I'm seeing a big red flag here for what purports to be a systems programming language: it isn't used for its own compiler. The compiler is written in Rust. A s
by Zak 3mo ago
I'm seeing a big red flag here for what purports to be a systems programming language: it isn't used for its own compiler. The compiler is written in Rust.
A systems programming language should be able to self-host its compiler. Writing compilers is one of the canonical systems programming tasks. Making that happen may not even be hard in the LLM and LLVM era as it's a fairly mechanical task for an LLM to execute, and you can output textual LLVM IR to bootstrap on any architecture LLVM supports.