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

[Basile B.]

On Tuesday, 19 January 2021 at 12:50:40 UTC, Max Haughton wrote:
> 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.

There is this small wiki page 
https://proglangdesign.net/wiki/firm written by myself, so I have 
not much to add, as I've dropped FIRM at the very beginning of 
the backend exprimentation.