BitC, Rust, dog food and more

[eles via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 25 March 2012 at 17:31:45 UTC, bearophile wrote:

>>I think that one of the most important things to underscore is 
>>that we would have never found these things so early unless we 
>>had written the Rust compiler in Rust itself. It forces us to 
>>use the language constantly, and we quickly find pain points. I 
>>highly encourage all languages to do the same; it's a great way 
>>to find and shake out design issues early.<
>
> Eating your own dog food is quite important for a language, 
> especially if it's a low-level language. D has chosen the 
> pragmatic approach of using almost-C++ as its implementation 
> language, but this has caused (and it is causing) some 
> disadvantages too.

Time to ask this again?