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		cperciva on Feb 24, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “This change deletes the C implementations of the ... You mean, audit a large number of independently-written Go compilers?

indians_pro on Feb 24, 2015 [–]

Nicely done. To be fair though, Go is just 6 years old and still evolving.

cperciva on Feb 24, 2015 | [–]

Exactly. Which is why I think it's important to keep the option of compiling its compiler from a language which has a large diversity of compilers.

crawshaw on Feb 24, 2015 | | [–]

I don't believe it has been tried yet, but it seems entirely possible to use gccgo as the bootstrap compiler.

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