Hi all, I've been working off and on for a few months on an Erlang->Elixir transpiler (mostly as an exercise for myself to learn Erlang semantics). I recently had the idea of applying it to the Erlang code in the Elixir core, creating a version of the Elixir compiler written completely in Elixir. Long story short, there are some caveats in the build process and a few bugs in the transpiler to work around, but today I finally got a proof of concept working and passing the tests.
So I was wondering whether the possibility of self-hosting the Elixir compiler had been discussed before. My initial thoughts were that it's often interesting to self-host; however, in this case all the core code would have to remain written in a "bootstrap" style of Elixir without access to the standard library, which might be awkward. But I was curious what else might have been discussed and what people's thoughts were. Thanks, Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/76F2675C-E59D-40C1-80F7-D057984781E9%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
