Bootstrapping is a process in which simple language is used to translate more complicated program which in turn may handle for more complicated program. This complicated program can further handle even more complicated program and so on. Writing a compiler for any high level language is a complicated process.
Bootstrapping is the process of writing a compiler for a programming language using the language itself. In other words, it is the process of using a compiler written in a particular programming language to compile a new version of the compiler written in the same language.
"Bootstrapping" comes from the term "pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. That much you can get from Wikipedia.
In computing, a bootstrap l...Best answer · 364
An example of bootstrapping is in some web frameworks. You call index.php (the bootstrapper), and then it loads the frameworks helpers, models, con...313
The term "bootstrapping" usually applies to a situation where a system depends on itself to start, sort of a chicken and egg problem.
For instance...110
See on the Wikipedia article on bootstrapping.
There is a section and links explaining what it means in Computing. It has four different uses in t...54
In the context of application development, "bootstrapping" usually comes up when talking about modular and/or auto-updatable software.30
Alex, it's pretty much what your computer does when it boots up. ('Booting' a computer actually comes from the word bootstrapping).
Initially, the...18
For completeness, it is also a rather important (and relatively new) method in statistics that uses resampling / simulation to infer population pro...15
Boot strapping the dictionary meaning is to start up with minimum resources. In the Context of an OS the OS should be able to swiftly load once the...4
As the question is answered. For web develoment. I came so far and found a good explanation about bootsrapping in Laravel doc. Here is the link.
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Bootstrapping has yet another meaning in the context of reinforcement learning that may be useful to know for developers, in addition to its use in...3
