On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 21:30:58 +0300 Sergey Matveev <stargr...@stargrave.org> wrote:
> *** Mattias Andrée [2021-04-17 20:08]: > >No one has an OCaml compiler. > > Same applies to Rust. > And to Go too, but it is easy bootstrappable with the C compiler, taking > just several minutes on modest hardware. Rust is like a JavaScript: just > download it and run, because it is seems so convenient modern days. > > >If I'm going to write a compiler, I'm going to write it in C > > That is good. And nearly everyone does so, or use at least something > that can be build with C-compiler. > Yes, one extra step is acceptable, as long as you have a way, that isn't too long, to get there from some common starting point. Self-hosted is a problem, but if you host a non-self-hosted versions that can be used to compile the self-hosted one, it is also acceptable, but you should not have to manually look for through old releases to find a non-self-hosted version.
