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Re:Go 1.5 is released by andrepd on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @04:46PM (#10088354)
The term is self-hosting compiler, when a compiler can compile itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting

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Re:Go 1.5 is released by tankenmate on Thursday August 20, 2015 @03:05AM (#10090369)
As the old hacker snark says 'Any language that can't compile itself is a toy language'.
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