styx, a programming languange written in D, is on the bootstrap path

[Max Haughton]

On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 19:18:09 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 09:54:59 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> self-hosting is not started yet, maybe next month, classes are 
> still to be implemented.
> I plan to use dparse for the most part, not only to convert but 
> also to detect non bootstrapable code or missing features. 
> Then, feature freeze, convert, catch and fix bugs as they will 
> appear when feading the compiler with real food.
>
> [...]

Thoughts on libfirm? I am thinking about writing an online book 
about compiler backends so I'm curious what it's like to work 
with.