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Why isn't it written in Go and bootstrapped?

• Someone 15y ago
  1. AFAIK, Go itself isnt self-hosting, either. 2. If I were to aim for a self-hosted go on the JVM, this could easily be one of the steps. Compile a 'Go written in Go' with this, and you are done (well, you would probably want to tune the runtime afterwards to get decent performance, but those are 'merely' details)
  • uriel 15y ago
    Yea, self-hosting is neat, but also makes bootstrapping much more complicated, specially when the language is still changing.
    • wickedchicken 15y ago
      > specially when the language is still changing. I think this is the biggest reason. Go has been stabilizing over the past few months but it definitely still is in development. Gofix helps with this but only so far...
• gaius 15y ago
  Well, some language communities consider it to be a point of pride to be self-hosting (e.g. Java) but for others (e.g. Python) it's not a big deal.
  • adw 15y ago
    I believe RPython to be a proper subset of Python, and PyPy is written in RPython. You need to bootstrap off CPython to compile the compiler, of course!
  • uriel 15y ago
    This is another area where Go prefers pragmatism over everything else.