On Wed, 01 Jan 2025 13:25:37 +0800, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > 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.
I can try to write a post this month, but please don't have much expectation on it, I'm in no way good at writing :)
