[swift-dev] Bootstrapping Swift compiler

[Atsuki Demizu]

Thank you for sharing the information.
I could understand the current status of Swift bootstrapping.

> 2015/12/04 15:31、David Owens II <david at owensd.io> のメール：
> 
> LLVM is usable from C APIs and can be used from within Swift. There might be a few rough edges, but it’s doable. That said, it’s a lot of work to re-write the compiler simply to bootstrap itself, and frankly, while the syntax of the language is still in high flux, it would be a bit of a foolish task with very little gain.
> 
> I could see it potentially happening later (or a small team to start on it after v3), but there is so much missing from Swift right now that I don’t see the team spending any significant amount of time to do work that won’t bring any developer-facing features to the table.
> 
> -David
> 
>> On Dec 3, 2015, at 10:30 PM, David Owens II <owensd at fastmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> LLVM is usable from C APIs and can be used from within Swift. There might be a few rough edges, but it’s doable. That said, it’s a lot of work to re-write the compiler simply to bootstrap itself, and frankly, while the syntax of the language is still in high flux, it would be a bit of a foolish task with very little gain.
>> 
>> I could see it potentially happening later (or a small team to start on it after v3), but there is so much missing from Swift right now that I don’t see the team spending any significant amount of time to do work that won’t bring any developer-facing features to the table.
>> 
>> -David
>> 
>>> On Dec 3, 2015, at 9:35 PM, AlexDenisov <1101.debian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Swift is heavily depends on LLVM, which is written in C++.
>>> Seems it’s not going happen in the near future since there are no plans for C++ <> Swift interoperability (yet?).
>>> --
>>> AlexDenisov
>>> Software Engineer, http://lowlevelbits.org
>>> 
>>>> On 04 Dec 2015, at 03:39, 出水 厚輝 <demmys.atsuki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Is there any schedules or ideas concerning a bootstrapping Swift?
>>>> I think all Swift users have an ability to be a good committer, except for his/her skills in C++.
>>>> And also I think Swift can be the swiftest and most readable language in the future.
>>>> So isn't it natural to the Swift compiler to be self-hosted?
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you for your time.
>>>> 
>>>> - Atsuki_______________________________________________
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