From: Hilton Chain <hako@ultrarare.space>
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: "Ekaitz Zarraga" <ekaitz@elenq.tech>,
guix-devel@gnu.org, dan <i@dan.games>,
"Efraim Flashner" <efraim@flashner.co.il>,
"Motiejus Jakštys" <motiejus@jakstys.lt>,
"Noé Lopez" <noe@xn--no-cja.eu>
Subject: Re: Bootstrapped Zig now available in Guix master.
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:38:47 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pll4m07c.wl-hako@ultrarare.space> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250101052537.23sz5ycnizjkbdn6@mailx.thebird.nl>
On Wed, 01 Jan 2025 13:25:37 +0800,
Pjotr Prins wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 04:57:22PM +0100, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote:
> > As told in IRC, I think we should write something about this, in the line of
> > the Mono bootstrap post. Zig people would enjoy it, and also Guix people.
> >
> > It's a great opportunity to let people know how hard is to bootstrap Zig,
> > Rust and some other languages, and make them focus a little bit more on the
> > language bootstrappability.
>
> Absolutely! Zig is still not in other distros because of this. Julia
> has similar problems. The problem is that language developers live in
> their own silo, create a self-hosted compiler with binary blob, and
> leave it to the distros to figure it out. Hopefully the bootstrap
> can carry on and other distros pick up on it. Zig deserves attention.
I can try to write a post this month, but please don't have much expectation on
it, I'm in no way good at writing :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-03 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-01 20:39 Bootstrapping Zig with no binary blobs: status update and call for packages Ashvith Shetty
2024-11-29 14:39 ` Hilton Chain
2024-12-01 23:19 ` Hilton Chain
2024-12-02 7:34 ` Efraim Flashner
2024-12-02 11:30 ` Ashvith Shetty
2024-12-03 15:37 ` Hilton Chain
2024-12-04 17:57 ` Hilton Chain
2024-12-02 13:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-12-05 6:28 ` Hilton Chain
2024-12-31 15:39 ` Bootstrapped Zig now available in Guix master Hilton Chain
2024-12-31 15:57 ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2025-01-01 5:25 ` Pjotr Prins
2025-01-03 14:38 ` Hilton Chain [this message]
2025-01-03 18:01 ` Attila Lendvai
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2025-01-02 1:09 Timothy Washington
2025-01-03 14:20 ` Hilton Chain
2025-01-05 3:44 ` Timothy Washington
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