@Wipe5@lemmy.fmhy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 years agoThe programmer who turns complex languages into elegant symphonies.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square15arrow-up1189
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minus-square@phorq@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish11•2 years agoYup, C is written in C. You bootstrap using a compiler written in another language until your language is complete enough to write its own compiler.
minus-square@Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoAlright, that’s kinda crazy lol.
minus-square@nychtelios@rlyeh.iculinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agogcc and clang are open source, you can read their source code whenever you want!
Compilers are built using compilers?
Yup, C is written in C. You bootstrap using a compiler written in another language until your language is complete enough to write its own compiler.
Alright, that’s kinda crazy lol.
gcc and clang are open source, you can read their source code whenever you want!