alt Hacker NewsRead them again a couple more times and it may become clear.
The prior post seemed to be claiming that this required any form of a bootstrapping process, when it does not.
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cxr • yesterday at 4:38 PM
You have lost the plot, and you are wrong.
This particular compiler does require bootstrapping, and that's obviously what "the compiler" is referring to in that comment.
Building your compiler in another language doesn't help at all. In fact, it just makes it worse. Dogfooding C++20 in your compiler that isn't even built in C++ is obviously impossible.