Implementing parts of the Swift compiler in Swift

Implementing Parts of the Swift Compiler in Swift.
Hi all, In the past few years, some components of the Swift compiler have started being implemented in Swift, including: The new Swift Driver, which coordinates Swift compilations. Parsing of regular expression literals. Some new SIL optimization passes. All of these components are optional for one reason or another. The new Swift Driver is optional because we are still maintaining the existing C++ Driver implementation, which can be used for building a compiler with a host that doesn’t supp…

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