I'll think about that. Note that we already have Groovy, as it's properly bootstrapped :)
Le 20 mai 2021 15:09:08 GMT-04:00, Shyam Saran <syamsaran12...@gmail.com> a écrit : >Many people want to move all their development work on guix > >example android sdk app development, yes scala, gradle, kotlin, groovy >etc >(even blockstack, ethereum) required to be packaged >As many of you, and Julien trying this. > >So more than contributing code, please provide a blog post from which, >who >all want to help >can also get guidance. > > >Thanks > >syam > > > > > >On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 21:06, Katherine Cox-Buday ><cox.katherin...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: >> >> >> I think the best way to bootstrap would be to reimplement Scala in >> > another language. I tried that too, but even the parser is crazy. >> >> Yes, the syntax is complex. Maybe even worse than C++ in terms of >> parsing. I abandoned scala awhile ago, but I saw that with its latest >> release, maybe some things got simplified. Maybe it's worth another >> look? >> >> > Could you share a link to that so everyone realizes just how far >you >> > went? :-) >> >> Before I outright abandoned the language, I was looking into >> bootstrapping this too. I did not go nearly as far, but was strongly >> dissuaded by core scala contributers from even trying (to be fair, >they >> probably don't hold bootstrapping in high regard as we do). >> >> The only thought I have to contribute is: would it be possible to >> bootstrap off of a binary seed, and then do what's possible to grow >that >> down to prior versions as much as possible? It's a compromise, but it >at >> least gets Guix into the scala ecosystem and provides scaffolding to >> work off of. Of course this might run contrary to Guix's goals/needs. >> >> -- >> Katherine >> >>
