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Re:Swift is Open Source by steveklabnik on Thursday December 03, 2015 @12:44PM (#10671101)
Not to mention, bootstrapping in a language that's not stable yet can be.... quite a pain.
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Re:Swift is Open Source by 102030485868 on Thursday December 03, 2015 @04:42PM (#10672880)
Hahaha, I'm amazed that the Rust developers were able to do that.

Saying it was "quite a pain" is the understatement of the year.

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Re:Swift is Open Source by steveklabnik on Thursday December 03, 2015 @07:22PM (#10673773)
Yup. I really think it was worth it though, it taught us a lot about how to make the language.
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Re:Swift is Open Source by janekm on Friday December 04, 2015 @10:39AM (#10676864)
Mind, are you not worried at all that it may have taught you a lot... about how to make a language for writing compilers in? (paraphrasing Chris Lattner)
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Re:Swift is Open Source by steveklabnik on Friday December 04, 2015 @12:03PM (#10677462)
That is indeed a concern, I agree with Chris here.

The solution we had, though, is Servo. It being developed alongside as well meant we had another significant, non-compiler project, which guided us out of that trap.

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