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by xattt 1686 days ago
Are there modern-day examples of impressive bootstrapping? APFS comes to mind.
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jason-phillips 1686 days ago
> Are there modern-day examples of impressive bootstrapping?

JavaScript and Brendan Eich may be considered modernish-day.

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emptyparadise 1686 days ago
Would be quite poetic if that was the last example.
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zerr 1686 days ago
First Pascal compiler was written in Pascal and hand-compiled to machine code.
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pjmlp 1686 days ago
And P-Code was never meant for an interpreter, Niklaus Wirth originally created it to ease the bootstrapping of Pascal into other systems, it was UCSD that made it popular beyond the original goal.
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drno123 1686 days ago
Maybe git, and JavaScript?
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nom 1686 days ago
maybe Minecraft?
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