
Bootstrapping a Compiler via WASM with Loris Cro
Software Unscripted
The Limitations of Zig Compiler
In theory, hypothetically, there could exist some world in which zig's comp time gets translated automatically to see macros. But a I don't even know if that's possible because I just don't know what the limitations of C macros are. Even assuming it were possible, it's a fact that the compiler does not do this today. So that's just not a viable solution. That's exactly right. I think it's a very hard problem. And in any case, as you said, it's something that we don't have today. It would require a serious investment of effort and we don't want to invest too much into the bootstrapping procedure. We kind of want
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