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parent 23a9fb1676865a942fea04511584e602b65927ba
Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date:   Fri,  3 Feb 2023 10:40:25 +0100

notes/bootstrapping: Nim bites the dust

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 			<h3>Java</h3>
 			<p>Requires compilers abandonned ~10 years ago, currently doesn't builds to OpenJDK for me.</p>
 
-			<h3>Free-Pascal Compiler</h3>
+			<h3>Free-Pascal Compiler / Object Pascal</h3>
 			<p><a href="https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Aesop">Aesop</a> seems to still be at the vaporware stage, no code is available.</p>
 
+			<h3>Nim</h2>
+			<p>
+				The transpiled C non-source code used for bootstrapping contained in <code>./c_code/</code> is pretty much what you would get with C++ mangled symbols auto-decompiled to C.<br />
+				<a href="https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_Nim">Real Bootstrapping</a> would need a bootstrap path for Object Pascal, which doesn't exists.
+			</p>
+
 			<h3>QEMU</h3>
 			<p>
 				QEMU 7.0 <a href="https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/11c7bca43160b3d893dc8d846d8da2838332123c">needs a quick fix on the <code>pc-bios/meson.build</code> file</a> so you can choose to not use the binaries it ships, fixed in QEMU 7.1.<br />