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> I'm certainly nowhere near being capable of implementing my own C++ compiler from scratch.

It's not that bad. A couple months and you're good to go.

I doubt even you would be that keen to write a C++17 compiler from scratch :P

For context, the person you replied to is the author of the D language.

I did write a C++98 compiler from scratch. I then was consumed by writing a D compiler, but the later C++ versions aren't hard from a compiler perspective.

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