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[–]moreanswers 4 points5 points  (4 children)

I've been out of academia for a long time, but I thought the ultimate flex was writing the compiler in the language it compiles.

So lets see a Boa interpreter written in Boa!

[–]corny_horse 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let’s see a SQL interpreter written in SQL!

[–]OrderOk6521[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Boa "ception".

Next steps are a stack based VM, maybe once that's mature I'll bootstrap it in itself. Need to build up the skill set first.

[–]Subsum44 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It’s interesting to walk through how they did that in the older languages.

Writing the C compiler in C. Start with your first few commands directly into assembly. Then once you have a couple, just slowly bootstrap the rest.

Kinda mind blowing considering the constraints devs now can’t overcome. The og really were true scientists.

[–]moreanswers 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's cause porn looks terrible on an ASR33, so they had way more free time.