Could someone explain why 4 of the top 5 stories right now are about Go?
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Go in Go
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#22"How to sell a rewrite of your compiler that made it slower"
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#23Just out of curiosity, is this the first time a language is written using itself?
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#24Just out of curiosity, is this the first time a language is written using itself?
No, bootstrapping is fairly common. Rust is another common example of a bootstrapped language and has been for some time.
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#25Just out of curiosity, is this the first time a language is written using itself?
Nope. Many languages are written in themselves. C, C++, and many Lisp implementations come to mind :)
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#26Oh, I was hoping for some go (aka baduk or weiqi) playing program written in go. These are a bit tricky to google ;)
Finally, my moment! I submit my own library, which is really meant for two players and scoring...and like much of what I do, was purely pun-driven. Maybe one day I'll add AI:
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#27Just out of curiosity, is this the first time a language is written using itself?
There's quite a few languages that bootstrap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28compilers%29#...
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#28Just out of curiosity, is this the first time a language is written using itself?
No, this is actually pretty standard.http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting
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#29"How to sell a rewrite of your compiler that made it slower"
This is a fair criticism presented in a poor way. Hopefully the performance will improve with the new dev.ssa branch eventually.
I will note that go programs still seem to build orders of magnitude faster than C++ programs, even after this change.
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#30Can we trust the go compiler?
edit: This is the link I meant - https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...