Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: >> I think the best way to bootstrap would be to reimplement Scala in > another language. I tried that too, but even the parser is crazy.
Yes, the syntax is complex. Maybe even worse than C++ in terms of parsing. I abandoned scala awhile ago, but I saw that with its latest release, maybe some things got simplified. Maybe it's worth another look? > Could you share a link to that so everyone realizes just how far you > went? :-) Before I outright abandoned the language, I was looking into bootstrapping this too. I did not go nearly as far, but was strongly dissuaded by core scala contributers from even trying (to be fair, they probably don't hold bootstrapping in high regard as we do). The only thought I have to contribute is: would it be possible to bootstrap off of a binary seed, and then do what's possible to grow that down to prior versions as much as possible? It's a compromise, but it at least gets Guix into the scala ecosystem and provides scaffolding to work off of. Of course this might run contrary to Guix's goals/needs. -- Katherine
