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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: community-based compiler
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:48:29 +0000 (UTC)
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Date: 2014-11-14T16:48:29+00:00
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Gour <gour@atmarama.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:16:22 +0000 (UTC)
> Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com> wrote:
> 
>> They're going to rewrite go in another language?
> 
> No, they're converting compiler from C to Go
> 
> E.g.
> http://gophercon.sourcegraph.com/post/83820197495/russ-cox-porting-the-go-compiler-from-c-to-go



I read it was written in c++ specifically to get around the bootstrap
issue.

Luke