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   Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 00:46:17 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
   Heh, even GNU Guix is using binaries to get GHC (Haskell Compiler).
   
   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/haskell.scm#n753
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 00:52:05 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     Also yeah, antique things like python-2. Which is like the whole reason why keeping a bootstrapping compiler current/modern is important. Specially for languages like Haskell where Diverse Double Compiling isn't an option.
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     LisPi (lispi314@mastodon.top)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 08:11:06 JST LisPi

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     @lanodan Yeah... languages without a sane bootstrap path are obnoxious.

     #Ada #GNAT still lacks one, for instance. They're working on it last I heard, but for now it's a problem.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 08:22:48 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @lispi314 As in you just need GCC to be bootstrapped or like they wrote the Ada frontend of GCC in Ada?
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     LisPi (lispi314@mastodon.top)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 08:29:29 JST LisPi

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     @lanodan The original compiler used to compile the GCC GNAT was proprietary, and while you can go back to earlier GNAT versions to compile the chain... the original one is obviously missing for a "from source" bootstrap.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 08:34:47 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @lispi314 Yeah but if you can get GNAT with current GCC via only relying on source code (this exclude transpiled code, as it's not the best/preferred way of doing modifications), then it bootstraps from source, then end.
     I feel like you're conflating it with ability to go back in history, which is almost the opposite of what I would want.