&gt; How many people actually do this, though?<p>Enough to warrant this being kept after eight years after I&#x27;ve seen it for the
first time.<p>&gt; We had this conversation early on in Rust&#x27;s life and the consensus was that we could make a non-bootstrapping compiler in theory, but that&#x27;d be asking us to do a huge amount of work (writing a separate compiler!) for something that very few people are going to use in practice.<p>Note that it&#x27;s not necessary to have <i>fully blown</i> compiler. Just a subset of
language would be just enough, if it allowed for compiling the compiler. And
how many of the Rust features are embedded in <i>rustc</i>, anyway?<p>&gt; There are so many more important things that we could be (and are) working on than something that&#x27;s basically just for purism, because most people just &quot;apt-get install rust&quot; or &quot;brew install rust&quot; and don&#x27;t care how it&#x27;s built.<p>So you basicaly say &quot;fuck you&quot; to distribution developers and all the
sysadmins that care about their systems, am I right?