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How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days

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429 points rui314 | 1 comments | 14 Dec 15 14:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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pinn4242 ◴[14 Dec 15 18:23 UTC] No.10732749[source]▶
Self-hosting is pointless. Go has it--who cares. I wrote a program 1000x faster than the ruby one (at work) with zero bugs in Go, but I still don't want to use it(Go). Java is fine. Do I care if Java is self-hosting? No. I'll do (another) language in Javacc (my first one is still awesome) or ANTLR.
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1. andrewchambers ◴[14 Dec 15 21:34 UTC] No.10734085[source]▶
If you want to create a self sufficient system then it isn't pointless at all. That just happens to be something that isn't in your requirements.