From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
Subject: Re: Scala package
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 23:35:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7iz67yw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E9CBAA1B-1155-4D66-A29B-DC78A613FE81@lepiller.eu> (Julien Lepiller's message of "Tue, 18 May 2021 07:15:56 -0400")
Hi,
Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:
> I think the best way to bootstrap would be to reimplement Scala in another language. I tried that too, but even the parser is crazy.
Could you share a link to that so everyone realizes just how far you
went? :-)
That OCaml now has a clean bootstrapping story can hopefully give GHC
and Scala folks an incentive to catch up.
How about writing a blog post? Ricardo and you could summarize your
heroic efforts, like Ricardo did for GHC (and it’d be a truly
interesting read I’m sure, both for those interested in Scala’s history
and for those interested in compilers). And in conclusion, you could
say: “Look, a major competitor is doing it right.” :-)
(And in the meantime, I fully appreciate that when you say it’s maybe
time to give up, it probably *is* time.)
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-18 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-17 23:01 Scala package Julien Lepiller
2021-05-18 7:08 ` Leo Prikler
2021-05-18 9:44 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2021-05-18 11:15 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-05-18 11:36 ` Leo Prikler
2021-05-18 12:37 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-05-18 13:52 ` Leo Prikler
2021-05-18 21:35 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-05-19 15:35 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2021-05-20 19:09 ` Shyam Saran
2021-05-20 19:34 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-05-21 9:32 ` Shyam Saran
2021-05-18 14:00 ` Daniel Trujillo Viedma
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