The rust compiler is written in rust… many compilers are bootstrapped and then written in their own language. Looking at the swift language vs C++ features used in the current compiler, I wager it would be a suicide mission to try with Swift 3.0.
> On May 29, 2016, at 2:27 PM, Leonardo Pessoa <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> attempting to write a Swift compiler in Swift today would probably result in >> hard to read/reason about source code. > > Hmm, I still have to find some time to start working in this... _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
