"because of self-hosting" Although I follow Bootstrapping projects, I think the self-hosting focus itself is a bad idea. PreScheme, a systems language, was eas

"because of self-hosting" Although I follow Bootstrapping projects, I think the self-hosting focus itself is a bad idea. PreScheme, a systems language, was easier to parse, more productive than, and compiled to C. The latter to leverage its optimizing compilers but showed it was not necessary to give up Scheme benefits to do it all in C. Likewise, many of these compilers would iterate faster with more correctness if written in a higher-level language instead of being self-hosting just because. The libraries will already test the language in a variety of situations. So, that excuse doesn't fly for me if trading away productivity and/or maintainability of the better language for the compiler/interpreter.