That would be a chicken-and-the-egg problem, thoug...
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hundreds-father-404
02/03/2020, 8:00 PMThat would be a chicken-and-the-egg problem, though, I think
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happy-kitchen-89482
02/03/2020, 8:12 PMAll compilers and build tools have this problem - but you build the new engine with the previous engine...
happy-kitchen-89482
02/03/2020, 8:12 PMSelf-hosting is a normal thing to be able to do 🙂
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aloof-angle-91616
02/03/2020, 10:07 PMi made this ticket previously to track ideas on how to do this: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/8717
aloof-angle-91616
02/03/2020, 10:07 PMtitle "build pants with its own rust backend"