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

[Brian Callahan]

On Sunday, 16 January 2022 at 17:09:07 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 09:54:59 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 17:51:51 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>>> This is the last[1] occasion to speak about a programming 
>>> language initiatly made in D, as the bootstrap phase is very 
>>> near.
>>
>> Interesting project! How did you move from D to Styx? (I 
>> assume bootstrapping means a self hosting compiler?) Did you 
>> write some scripts to translate?
>
> It turns out that finally everything was translated manually. 
> This was a bit painful but also an opportunity to review older 
> parts and to change a details that otherwise would not have 
> been done.

Interesting language. I was able to make a quick port to OpenBSD; 
works fine there too. Thanks for your work on this!

~Brian