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wat10000yesterday at 5:22 PM1 replyview on HN

What is "It absolutely does not" responding to? I didn't say anything about a C++20 compiler needing to be written in C++20.


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kstrauseryesterday at 6:38 PM

You said:

> This particular compiler does require bootstrapping, and that's obviously what "the compiler" is referring to in that comment.

You have to pick an option: either it requires bootstrapping, or it doesn’t.

As it’s possible to write the C++20 compiler features in C++11 (or whatever GCC or Clang are written in these days), it factually does not require bootstrapping.

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