Enough to warrant this being kept after eight years after I've seen it for the
first time.
> We had this conversation early on in Rust's life and the consensus was that we could make a non-bootstrapping compiler in theory, but that'd be asking us to do a huge amount of work (writing a separate compiler!) for something that very few people are going to use in practice.
Note that it's not necessary to have fully blown compiler. Just a subset of
language would be just enough, if it allowed for compiling the compiler. And
how many of the Rust features are embedded in rustc, anyway?
> There are so many more important things that we could be (and are) working on than something that's basically just for purism, because most people just "apt-get install rust" or "brew install rust" and don't care how it's built.
So you basicaly say "fuck you" to distribution developers and all the
sysadmins that care about their systems, am I right?
Enough to warrant this being kept after eight years after I've seen it for the first time.
> We had this conversation early on in Rust's life and the consensus was that we could make a non-bootstrapping compiler in theory, but that'd be asking us to do a huge amount of work (writing a separate compiler!) for something that very few people are going to use in practice.
Note that it's not necessary to have fully blown compiler. Just a subset of language would be just enough, if it allowed for compiling the compiler. And how many of the Rust features are embedded in rustc, anyway?
> There are so many more important things that we could be (and are) working on than something that's basically just for purism, because most people just "apt-get install rust" or "brew install rust" and don't care how it's built.
So you basicaly say "fuck you" to distribution developers and all the sysadmins that care about their systems, am I right?