[ewalk153]

I’ve hit similar problems with their Ruby gRPC library.

The counter example is the language Go. The team running Go has put considerable care and attention into making this project welcoming for developers to contribute, while still adhering to Google code contribution requirements. Building for source is straightforward and iirc it’s one of the easier cross compilers to setup.

Install docs: https://go.dev/doc/install/source#bootstrapFromBinaryRelease

[rstat1]

Go is kinda of a pain to build from source. Build one version to build another, and another..

Or rather it was the last time I tried.

[bbkane]

I think that's how most languages bootstrap.