[swift-evolution] [Proposal] Protected Access Level

[L Mihalkovic]

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 <me at lmpessoa.com> wrote:
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>> attempting to write a Swift compiler in Swift today would probably result in hard to read/reason about source code. 
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> Hmm, I still have to find some time to start working in this...