So gobsmacked you apparently couldn't even begin to attempt answering the question but felt you just had to go on a rant as irrelevant as you believe it's righteous, uh?
> There used to be a saying, only half-joking, that a language that can't host/compile/bootstrap itself is nothing more than a toy. As others have more eloquently pointed out, it shouldn't have to be explained why people who write operating systems and compilers would consider that a no-go.
Rust has been self-hosted for almost as long as it's existed. The boostrapping OCaml compiler was left behind back in 2011.
We haven't even gotten to alpha, hppa, loongson, luna88k, macppc, octeon, sgi, or that backwards beauty of big-endianness, sparc64. But hey, it compiles on amd64! That should be good enough, right?
So gobsmacked you apparently couldn't even begin to attempt answering the question but felt you just had to go on a rant as irrelevant as you believe it's righteous, uh?
> There used to be a saying, only half-joking, that a language that can't host/compile/bootstrap itself is nothing more than a toy. As others have more eloquently pointed out, it shouldn't have to be explained why people who write operating systems and compilers would consider that a no-go.
Rust has been self-hosted for almost as long as it's existed. The boostrapping OCaml compiler was left behind back in 2011.