Porting the Go compiler to Go

The Sourcegraph site has a writeup of Russ Cox's talk on the task of porting the Go compiler from C to Go. "The Go compiler was originally written in C because 1) Go didn’t exist, 2) Go was unstable, and 3) Go was originally intended for writing network/systems code and not for compilers. But now 1) Go exists, 2) Go is stable as of Go 1.x, and 3) Go has turned out to be a nice general purpose language and the compiler won’t be an outsize influence on the language design." The hope is to have the compiler written in Go for the 1.4 release.

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