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		freeopinion on Aug 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Compiler Development: Rust or OCaml? Did Microsoft rewrite their C++ compiler in C#?

pjmlp on Aug 8, 2023 [–]

They did in the past, in something like LLVM, but based on MSIL, it was called Phoenix done by Microsoft Research.

In any case, it wouldn't make sense from having a bootstraped compiler point of view.

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