State of the Compiler

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On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 16:57:57 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
>
> Basically all the rational arguments for not using phobos in 
> the front end can be turned into arguments for not relying on 
> phobos in any major project.

Nobody *ever* bootstraps a compiler using all it's features.
http://www.standardpascal.com/CDC6000pascal.html
http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/dmr-on-histories.html
http://www.forth.com/resources/evolution/evolve_6.html
http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01cr/papers/s32008/sbcl.pdf <-- 
actually hard to bootstrap, makes gentle fun of lisp500.c