Thank you for sharing the information. I could understand the current status of Swift bootstrapping.
> 2015/12/04 15:31、David Owens II <da...@owensd.io> のメール： > > LLVM is usable from C APIs and can be used from within Swift. There might be > a few rough edges, but it’s doable. That said, it’s a lot of work to re-write > the compiler simply to bootstrap itself, and frankly, while the syntax of the > language is still in high flux, it would be a bit of a foolish task with very > little gain. > > I could see it potentially happening later (or a small team to start on it > after v3), but there is so much missing from Swift right now that I don’t see > the team spending any significant amount of time to do work that won’t bring > any developer-facing features to the table. > > -David > >> On Dec 3, 2015, at 10:30 PM, David Owens II <owe...@fastmail.com> wrote: >> >> LLVM is usable from C APIs and can be used from within Swift. There might be >> a few rough edges, but it’s doable. That said, it’s a lot of work to >> re-write the compiler simply to bootstrap itself, and frankly, while the >> syntax of the language is still in high flux, it would be a bit of a foolish >> task with very little gain. >> >> I could see it potentially happening later (or a small team to start on it >> after v3), but there is so much missing from Swift right now that I don’t >> see the team spending any significant amount of time to do work that won’t >> bring any developer-facing features to the table. >> >> -David >> >>> On Dec 3, 2015, at 9:35 PM, AlexDenisov <1101.deb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Swift is heavily depends on LLVM, which is written in C++. >>> Seems it’s not going happen in the near future since there are no plans for >>> C++ <> Swift interoperability (yet?). >>> -- >>> AlexDenisov >>> Software Engineer, http://lowlevelbits.org >>> >>>> On 04 Dec 2015, at 03:39, 出水 厚輝 <demmys.ats...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Is there any schedules or ideas concerning a bootstrapping Swift? >>>> I think all Swift users have an ability to be a good committer, except for >>>> his/her skills in C++. >>>> And also I think Swift can be the swiftest and most readable language in >>>> the future. >>>> So isn't it natural to the Swift compiler to be self-hosted? >>>> >>>> Thank you for your time. >>>> >>>> - Atsuki_______________________________________________ >>>> swift-dev mailing list >>>> swift-dev@swift.org >>>> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> swift-dev mailing list >>> swift-dev@swift.org >>> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev >> >
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