How golang compiler made by golang!!!

Question

according to Google the newer go compiler how that even possible 😅😅😅

Answer 1

They write a compiler that's just complicated enough to compile the full compiler in another language (like C, or something), and then with the newly compiled Go compiler they can now compile Go.

This technique is quite common, and it's called bootstrapping. The compiler itself is a self-hosting compiler.

Answer 2

LunarCoffee are there benefits of doing that or it's just a marketing strategy 🙄

Answer 3

I'm not sure what you mean by "marketing strategy," but either way, there isn't really a benefit to writing a self-hosted compiler. It's probably just because they enjoy using the language, which most language designers do, because they wrote the language.

Answer 4

LunarCoffee I mean by marketing strategy they basically saying that our languages is so cool and well done that we had to make it compiler by the language it self 😂😂

Answer 5

droftor yes go it also called golang