Its generally called "self-hosting" when a compiler can compile itself[1]. It was a pretty big deal when Clang became self-hosting[2] in 2010. [1] https://en.w

Its generally called "self-hosting" when a compiler can compile itself[1]. It was a pretty big deal when Clang became self-hosting[2] in 2010. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting [2] http://blog.llvm.org/2010/02/clang-successfully-self-hosts.html http://blog.llvm.org/2010/02/clang-successfully-self-hosts.h...