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

[Basile B.]

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.