What's Ruby?
An interpreted, multi-paradigm, high-level, general-purpose programming language. You need Rust to build it.
What's Rust?
A compiled, multi-paradigm, high-level, general-purpose programming language. You need Python to build it.
What's Python?
An interpreted, multi-paradigm, high-level, general-purpose programming language.
Do I need, uhm, Perl to build it?
No, but you need Perl to build Rust.
I knew it. What's Perl?
An interpreted, multi-paradigm, high-level, general-
@lispi314 Do you mean something like #GCCrs?
That got a lot of backlash (from lots of people who said that the approach is bad and completely ignored bootstrapping), but they are going through with it and are making good progress: https://rust-gcc.github.io/
(me and others told them again and again that what they are doing is great work and two years ago they finally got funding)
@ArneBab @dalias @jschauma That certainly does look like what I'm suggesting.
It'd make for an alternative bootstrap option usable for instance in #Guix (https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/rust.scm), but from the project goals it would also eventually become an entirely distinct valid compiler for Rust, which seems quite desirable for me.
@lispi314 Also see python-on-guile: https://gitlab.com/python-on-guile/python-on-guile
#Guile has a minimal #bootstrap path via MES: https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/
@lispi314 sidenote: that #guile bootstrap path was developed for #guix :
GNU Mes (maxwell equations of software) provides a minimal #scheme interpreter and C #compiler with tooling to build #tinycc that can be used with the Mes C library to compile glibc-2.2.5, binutils-2.20.1, gcc-2.95.3 with which you can build the whole #GNU system.
Thanks to #GCCrs that will soon include #Rust
Thanks to #Python on Guile it includes a shortcut for compatible Python-based tooling.
#GCC
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