Talk:Self-hosting

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Gentoo

I went to #gentoo and asked them how you could deal with non-free packages in Gentoo. I was surprised to learn that Gentoo includes some non-free packages which aren't available in source form, and therefore that Gentoo isn't self-hosting. I'm removing it from the page unless someone can rectify.--Chealer 00:32, 2005 Apr 3 (UTC)

Aren't the non-free ones also non-core/non-essential? If so, then Gentoo could certainly be added to the list. --TheParanoidOne 23:39, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Energy systems?

I added the paragraph concerning self hosting of energy systems as I have encountered misunderstanding of how renewable energy systems can self host. This concept may have been formalised in connection with software toolchains and operating systems etc. but it is applicable to other fields, and in my view this article should reflect this fact. Copsewood (talk) 21:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone else use this terminology besides you? --FOo (talk) 08:40, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FASM?

Does FASM belong in the list of self-hosting languages? It is an assembler, not a language. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.213.133.83 (talk) 14:46, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it builds itself. You only need FASM to build FASM. Being a language ain't got nothing to do with it. --Frozenport (talk) 04:22, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

How about the web stuff?

How about self hosted as in "self hosted blog", "self hosted app"? If you do a Google search for "self hosted", except the Wikipedia result you'll see what I'm talking about. Nonsalant (talk) 19:04, 17 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What about C++?

According to Bjarne Stroustrup, the first C++ compiler was written in C++, therefore making it a self-hosting language. (Source: http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#bootstrapping) So, shouldn't it be added? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.210.84.14 (talk) 00:01, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Other Meaning"

I'm sure that's not the right way to deal with multiple meanings. Tesspub (talk) 00:13, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed it. This expression does appear to be used by some bloggers as meaning "running your own web server rather than using a commercial provider", but it isn't clear to me that there's enough of a topic there to be an article. —FOo (talk) 06:52, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How about RepRap?

It is looks like a hardware self-hosting--Nashev (talk) 13:28, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Java, rly?

I like to dispute the claim that Java is self-hosting. Sure, the Java API and Java compiler are/can be written and compiled in Java, but the Java virtual machine required to run Java bytecode is still written in a different language that is native to the host system (usually C/C++). --Zom-B (talk) 17:14, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Java is definitely not self hosting. you still need c/c++ to compile the java runtime components. Ht990332 (talk) 08:23, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

C. Bohm

Doesn't Corrado Bohm's PhD thesis from 1951 describe an earlier self-hosting compiler than those mentioned in the article? According to [1]: "As remarked by D.E. Knuth in his paper “The early development of programming languages” ...: “Böhm’s dissertation was especially remarkable because he not only described a complete compiler, he also defined that compiler in its own language!..." Gf uip (talk) 18:35, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

c# seems self hosting...

The .NET framework, what C# is built on, is built on C# (or VB, but doesn't really matter). Shouldn't it be classed as selfhosting? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.112.141 (talk) 10:24, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It has to start somewhere

If the first program to be self-hosted was a LISP compiler, what was the previous LISP compiler compiled against? If it wasn't self-hosted, what was that compiler compiled against, and if that was wasn't self hosted, see where this is going?

If Linux was made on Minix, what was Minux made on (another Unix probably, in which case, what was Unix made on), and what was the OS that Minux/Unix was made on made on?