Potential of a compiler that creates the executable at once

[Walter Bright]

On 2/10/2022 8:18 PM, Era Scarecrow wrote:
>   To note, back in 1996 or about there i wrote an assembler that took x86 and 
> could compiler itself. But wasn't compatible with any other code and couldn't 
> use object files or anything (*as it was all made from scratch when i was 
> 12-14*). However it did compiler directly to a COM file. I'll just say from 
> experience, there are advantages but they don't outweigh the disadvantages. 
> That's my flat opinion going from here.

Back in the olden days, creating a DOS executable was trivial. Things have 
gotten much more complicated.