Is there any schedules or ideas concerning a bootstrapping Swift?
I think all Swift users have an ability to be a good committer, except for his/her skills in C++.
And also I think Swift can be the swiftest and most readable language in the future.
So isn't it natural to the Swift compiler to be self-hosted?
Thank you for your time.
- Atsuki
LLVM is usable from C APIs and can be used from within Swift. There might be a few rough edges, but it’s doable. That said, it’s a lot of work to re-write the compiler simply to bootstrap itself, and frankly, while the syntax of the language is still in high flux, it would be a bit of a foolish task with very little gain.
I could see it potentially happening later (or a small team to start on it after v3), but there is so much missing from Swift right now that I don’t see the team spending any significant amount of time to do work that won’t bring any developer-facing features to the table.
-David
On Dec 3, 2015, at 10:30 PM, David Owens II <owensd@fastmail.com> wrote:
LLVM is usable from C APIs and can be used from within Swift. There might be a few rough edges, but it’s doable. That said, it’s a lot of work to re-write the compiler simply to bootstrap itself, and frankly, while the syntax of the language is still in high flux, it would be a bit of a foolish task with very little gain.
I could see it potentially happening later (or a small team to start on it after v3), but there is so much missing from Swift right now that I don’t see the team spending any significant amount of time to do work that won’t bring any developer-facing features to the table.
-David
On Dec 3, 2015, at 9:35 PM, AlexDenisov <1101.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
Swift is heavily depends on LLVM, which is written in C++.
Seems it’s not going happen in the near future since there are no plans for C++ <> Swift interoperability (yet?).
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AlexDenisov
Software Engineer, http://lowlevelbits.orgOn 04 Dec 2015, at 03:39, 出水 厚輝 <demmys.atsuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there any schedules or ideas concerning a bootstrapping Swift?
I think all Swift users have an ability to be a good committer, except for his/her skills in C++.
And also I think Swift can be the swiftest and most readable language in the future.
So isn't it natural to the Swift compiler to be self-hosted?Thank you for your time.
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Swift is heavily depends on LLVM, which is written in C++.
Seems it’s not going happen in the near future since there are no plans for C++ <> Swift interoperability (yet?).
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AlexDenisov
Software Engineer, http://lowlevelbits.org
On 04 Dec 2015, at 03:39, 出水 厚輝 <demmys.atsuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there any schedules or ideas concerning a bootstrapping Swift?
I think all Swift users have an ability to be a good committer, except for his/her skills in C++.
And also I think Swift can be the swiftest and most readable language in the future.
So isn't it natural to the Swift compiler to be self-hosted?Thank you for your time.
- Atsuki_______________________________________________
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This is definitely true. Swift also tends to rely on bleeding-edge LLVM/Clang features and fixes, and the C APIs for interacting with LLVM and Clang lag behind the C++ implementations since the C APIs need to be stable.
-Joe
On Dec 3, 2015, at 10:31 PM, David Owens II <david@owensd.io> wrote:
LLVM is usable from C APIs and can be used from within Swift. There might be a few rough edges, but it’s doable. That said, it’s a lot of work to re-write the compiler simply to bootstrap itself, and frankly, while the syntax of the language is still in high flux, it would be a bit of a foolish task with very little gain.
I could see it potentially happening later (or a small team to start on it after v3), but there is so much missing from Swift right now that I don’t see the team spending any significant amount of time to do work that won’t bring any developer-facing features to the table.
Thank you for sharing the information.
I could understand the current status of Swift bootstrapping.
2015/12/04 15:31、David Owens II <david@owensd.io> のメール：
LLVM is usable from C APIs and can be used from within Swift. There might be a few rough edges, but it’s doable. That said, it’s a lot of work to re-write the compiler simply to bootstrap itself, and frankly, while the syntax of the language is still in high flux, it would be a bit of a foolish task with very little gain.
I could see it potentially happening later (or a small team to start on it after v3), but there is so much missing from Swift right now that I don’t see the team spending any significant amount of time to do work that won’t bring any developer-facing features to the table.
-David
On Dec 3, 2015, at 10:30 PM, David Owens II <owensd@fastmail.com> wrote:
LLVM is usable from C APIs and can be used from within Swift. There might be a few rough edges, but it’s doable. That said, it’s a lot of work to re-write the compiler simply to bootstrap itself, and frankly, while the syntax of the language is still in high flux, it would be a bit of a foolish task with very little gain.
I could see it potentially happening later (or a small team to start on it after v3), but there is so much missing from Swift right now that I don’t see the team spending any significant amount of time to do work that won’t bring any developer-facing features to the table.
-David
On Dec 3, 2015, at 9:35 PM, AlexDenisov <1101.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
Swift is heavily depends on LLVM, which is written in C++.
Seems it’s not going happen in the near future since there are no plans for C++ <> Swift interoperability (yet?).
--
AlexDenisov
Software Engineer, http://lowlevelbits.orgOn 04 Dec 2015, at 03:39, 出水 厚輝 <demmys.atsuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there any schedules or ideas concerning a bootstrapping Swift?
I think all Swift users have an ability to be a good committer, except for his/her skills in C++.
And also I think Swift can be the swiftest and most readable language in the future.
So isn't it natural to the Swift compiler to be self-hosted?Thank you for your time.
- Atsuki_______________________________________________
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