[swift-evolution] Proposal: Rewrite Swift compiler in swift to get ideas for further language evolution.

Amir Michail a.michail at me.com
Sat Dec 19 18:32:05 CST 2015


> On Dec 19, 2015, at 7:21 PM, Colin Barrett <colin at springsandstruts.com> wrote:
> 
> I’d recommend you read http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/the_bootstrapped_compiler_and_the_damage_done <http://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/the_bootstrapped_compiler_and_the_damage_done>, which has a number of rebuttals to what you’ve said below.
> 

That’s an interesting article but it doesn’t address the issue of whether compiler code is more like normal programming than compiler standard library code.

>> On Dec 19, 2015, at 4:41 PM, Amir Michail via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>> Compiler code is probably more typical of what most programmers write than library code and so would be ideal for suggesting further language evolution ideas.
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