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This argument is getting old. What was the first, the egg or the chicken? Was the first C implementation passed down on stones drawn from the void of the Univer

This argument is getting old. What was the first, the egg or the chicken? Was the first C implementation passed down on stones drawn from the void of the Universe? At some point bootstrapping was needed for the implementation to be self hosted. That goes for every supported platform.

gillianseed 14y ago
Of course not, but once they existed C compilers has been written in C (or later C++), not assembly. Go exists, the runtime and the compiler is written in C and from what I've read from Russ Cox there are no plans whatsoever of rewriting either in Go.
- 1SaltwaterC 14y ago
  Of course. But for the moment, being self hosted is just reinventing the wheel when there's so much existing infrastructure. That being said, it is difficult, probably impossible, for Go to be a C replacement, but you're using the wrong argument (the current canonical implementation).