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<ekaitz>what do you people think about Zig's bootstrapping process? <ekaitz>and I don't know how to feel about it <stikonas>ekaitz: people here mentioned wasm is still binary <stikonas>so you would have to still build multiple versions in order to do a proper bootstrap <ekaitz>and I don't know why they did that <stikonas>ekaitz: there was a blog post about that <ekaitz>yeah, but i didn't really get why <stikonas>yeah, like "we got rid of C++ requirement" <stikonas>and no longer need to maintain another compiler <stikonas>well, you need to check commits when webassembly was changed <stikonas>but in the worst case you might need git snapshots <stikonas>and hope that there aren't any commits that immediately need new features... <stikonas>(there was a commit in bison git repo that already needed itself to build) <ekaitz>i didn't even manage to make a simple package for it <ekaitz>but webassembly stuff is a pain in the ass <ekaitz>okay so i just read the post and... yeah <ekaitz>that's why I didn't get why, it doesn't really say anything <pder>I recently built a new machine to replace my aging laptop and found that on the new machine live-bootstrap would hang on booting Fiwix. <pder>This happens consistently on the master branch- however the playground branch from Googulator works fine on this machine and continues past Fiwix to the end <stikonas>pder: oh, that's probably that bios memory map <pder>Yeah, thats what I wondered. Still its not clear why the host machine would make any difference <stikonas>well, its memory map might be mapping different memory locations to qemu