Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Self-hosted software language systems need to bootstrap core components such as data structure libraries, parsers, type checkers, or even compilers. Bytecode interpreters can load byte code files, while image-based systems can load in images of entire systems — Emacs, for example, does both. Bootstrapping is more of a problem, however, for traditional AST-based systems, especially when they must be portable across multiple host systems and languages.
Authors: Michael Homer, James Noble
Institution: Victoria University of Wellington
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Funders: Royal Society Te Apārangi, Marsden Fund
Award: G7243356095
OpenAlex ID: W4415002729