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1. AFAIK, Go itself isnt self-hosting, either.

2. If I were to aim for a self-hosted go on the JVM, this could easily be one of the steps. Compile a 'Go written in Go' with this, and you are done (well, you would probably want to tune the runtime afterwards to get decent performance, but those are 'merely' details)

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Yea, self-hosting is neat, but also makes bootstrapping much more complicated, specially when the language is still changing.

> specially when the language is still changing.

I think this is the biggest reason. Go has been stabilizing over the past few months but it definitely still is in development. Gofix helps with this but only so far...

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