I'm not sure it's getting funny. I find it's getting interesting. If the best mechanisms the developers could find to solve a certain problem could be implement

I'm not sure it's getting funny. I find it's getting interesting. If the best mechanisms the developers could find to solve a certain problem could be implemented in a language + compiler, does this mean the project should be implemented in this language is? What does this even mean? Maybe it already is implemented in this language? Or is it not, because of the missing syntactic abstraction? The thought I have related to this is that languages are much like GUIs in this regard. They enable a certain process using some built-in features, but it's next to impossible to abstract over those feature to optimize further. And I think that is why I stay with a simple language that gives arrays, structs, and function calls - basically tools to manipulate data / memory, I'm not sure that more features are all that useful to write "well-compressed" programs (but I can imagine that it's often hard to see why certain useful seeming features will be detrimental down the road).