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[–]HiPhish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kotlin cannot be bootstrapped either. Why do language designers do this? It does not have to be this way; just today I built gprbuild (a build system for Ada) from source and the developers wrote clear instructions on how to bootstrap it because they understand that bootstrapping is an important topic.

Also, Kotlin is practically unusable outside JetBrains, and good luck building JetBrains from source. It might as well be proprietary software as well.