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The original comment was about languages not something that was purely a hobby.


I wasn't replying to the original comment. I was replying under the branch of the comment tree where jimsimmons wrote

> Let’s say I’m targeting x86 or PTX or some standard subo instruction set. I can do vanilla codegen but it is slow af

and

> Because I want to be self hosted

which struck me as something a hobbyist would say but someone working on a production-grade language and compiler would not.




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