Screencast If you click on this screenshot, you'll see OSH running ./configure from CPython's tarball, with GC debug output. This is: 16K lines of gnarly shell generated by GNU autoconf Running in our shell interpreter, written in ~40K lines of typed Python. But, it's translated to ~80K lines of pure C++! That generated C++ runs on top of a ~4K line runtime of garbage collected data structures, an
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