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It also complicates the bootstrapping process, sometimes significantly. I understand that it's important to eat your own dog food, in order to experience the p
by capitol_ 6y ago
It also complicates the bootstrapping process, sometimes significantly.
I understand that it's important to eat your own dog food, in order to experience the pain points yourself. But sometimes people think of self hosting as a symbol of something (pride maybe), and that's the wrong way to approach a programming problem in my opinion.
- wtetzner 6y agoIn practice, I suspect it's less about pride, and more about practical issues. Bootstrapping means you only need to deal with one language ecosystem, instead of two. And, presumably, the author of the compiler would prefer to write code in their language over some other one.