> Plus there is another angle on this. MesCC, the bootstrap C compiler in > Scheme, is not a intended to be used beyond bootstrapping. And probably will lose features over time not directly related to the act of bootstrapping itself
> A C compiler on top of Guile however, could be a very interesting project and > could easily target gcc; possibly attempt C++. Well mescc is well on its way to that > I may just be dreaming... I hope not > Hmm, it's my understanding that Guile is pretty heavily tied to libguile/*.c. > What makes you think that it's possible for Guile to run > without libguile/*.c? https://wingolog.org/archives/2016/01/11/the-half-strap-self-hosting-and-guile Specifically "The bootstrap C interpreter in libguile loads the Scheme compiler and builds eval.go from eval.scm" Thus by simply having a scheme compiler able to compile eval.scm, we can skip the libguile/*.c Assuming I interpreted that situation correctly
