On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 04:57:22PM +0100, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: > As told in IRC, I think we should write something about this, in the line of > the Mono bootstrap post. Zig people would enjoy it, and also Guix people. > > It's a great opportunity to let people know how hard is to bootstrap Zig, > Rust and some other languages, and make them focus a little bit more on the > language bootstrappability.
Absolutely! Zig is still not in other distros because of this. Julia has similar problems. The problem is that language developers live in their own silo, create a self-hosted compiler with binary blob, and leave it to the distros to figure it out. Hopefully the bootstrap can carry on and other distros pick up on it. Zig deserves attention. Great job. Pj.
