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0 pointsindians_pro11y ago0 comments

Nicely done. To be fair though, Go is just 6 years old and still evolving.

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cperciva11y ago· 1 in thread

Exactly. Which is why I think it's important to keep the option of compiling its compiler from a language which has a large diversity of compilers.

I don't believe it has been tried yet, but it seems entirely possible to use gccgo as the bootstrap compiler.

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