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diff --git a/docs/2015-10-23-dotty-compiler-bootstraps.md b/docs/2015-10-23-dotty-compiler-bootstraps.md index bd285a035..3b4cd5122 100644 --- a/docs/2015-10-23-dotty-compiler-bootstraps.md +++ b/docs/2015-10-23-dotty-compiler-bootstraps.md @@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ title: We Got LiftOff! The Dotty Compiler for Scala Bootstraps. The Dotty project is a platform to develop new technology for Scala tooling and to try out concepts of future Scala language versions. -Its compiler is a completely new design intended to reflect the +Its compiler is a new design intended to reflect the lessons we learned from work with the Scala compiler. A clean redesign today will let us iterate faster with new ideas in the future. Today we reached an important milestone: The Dotty compiler can compile itself, and the compiled compiler can act as a drop-in for the -original one. This is what one calls a "bootstrap". +original one. This is what one calls a *bootstrap*. ## Why is this important? |