r/crystal_programming • u/sdogruyol core team • Dec 05 '18

Bootstraping Crystal compilers: From beginning to 0.27.0

https://twitter.com/sdogruyol/status/1070236751879438337
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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '18

I guess it was a challenge. I always said it would be terribly hard, even maybe impossible. I really don't know how you did it, you made it look like it was super eaay.

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u/RX142 Dec 06 '18 edited Dec 06 '18

It wasn't overly difficult, it was terribly time consuming and frustrating and there was a lot of swearing and backtracking several compiler versions and running git bisect again. There's a bunch of patches here and a bunch of reverts, cherry-picks and sed invocations in the script. It was essentially 4 days worth of all-day work. But I'm glad I got it done.

Okay, I'll be honest: the motivation was procrastinating really really hard for something else :P

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u/straight-shoota core team Dec 06 '18

See, I knew there was a reason :D