f...@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) writes: > Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> writes: > >> [...] Go, a new experimental systems programming language designed >> by a small group at Google. [...] The frontend is written in, yes, >> C++. [...] > > Neat. Are there any plans to have a front-end written in its own > language (and use the current C++ one only for bootstrapping)?
I don't personally have any plans to write the gcc frontend in Go, though that would be clearly possible. There are vague plans for a full compiler written in Go. Note that there is another Go compiler, gccgo is really more of a secondary one at this point. Ian
