Dogfooding is not always related to bootstrapping. In fact, this is a reasonably common pitfall for language designers, because language implementations are ver

Dogfooding is not always related to bootstrapping. In fact, this is a reasonably common pitfall for language designers, because language implementations are very specific and if you only tune your language for them your language will of course need ADTs and generics and value semantics and GCs. Not to say that those are great, but you may have missed a whole slew of possibilities by doing so! And that's why you can do dogfooding without bootstrapping---you can instead have other big enough software written in your language and coevolve with it. For example Rust did this with Servo.