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Well, some language communities consider it to be a point of pride to be self-hosting (e.g. Java) but for others (e.g. Python) it's not a big deal.

I believe RPython to be a proper subset of Python, and PyPy is written in RPython.

You need to bootstrap off CPython to compile the compiler, of course!

This is another area where Go prefers pragmatism over everything else.