On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 20:38:51 +0200 Mattias Andrée <maand...@kth.se> wrote:
> 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. So basically, if you are going to make a self-hosted compiler for your own language, you have to publish the last version that wasn't self-hosted alongside the self-hosted version, and then make sure all new versions are compilable with that version.
