diff --git a/www/FAQ.rst b/www/FAQ.rst index 486b99a06cba5..9f72f866ff218 100644 --- a/www/FAQ.rst +++ b/www/FAQ.rst @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Not in the short term. C++ is a very pragmatic language for implementing compilers, since it has good performance characteristics and allows higher-level programming idioms than C. -That said, we do expect Swift to a better language than C++ in a number of ways, +That said, we do expect Swift to be a better language than C++ in a number of ways, so why don't we implement the compiler itself in Swift? There are a couple of reasons that bootstrapping is not a good idea, at least in the short term: