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		ben-schaaf on Jan 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Specification for the D Programming Language Why would you have to bootstrap the compiler to simply install an app?

joecool1029 on Jan 10, 2020 [–]

Because nobody had a binary of the app for my architecture?

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