# Julia written in Julia?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-written-in-julia/25781>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [June 27, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-written-in-julia/25781 "2019-06-27T22:31:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-written-in-julia/25781/19 "2019-06-28T19:04:50Z")

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You may find these previous discussions helpful:

> [@The role of femtolisp in Julia?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-role-of-femtolisp-in-julia/1902/18):
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> I’m not sure where you read about a “definite” plan. There are certainly people who expressed an interest, but e.g. as @JeffBezanson [wrote](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-dev/dOAwcwm5iEA/dJFqob5HfNYJ): The fact is that no one appears to be seriously working on making Julia self-hosting right now. There are far too many more interesting problems to work on.

[https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/32282](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/32282)

Note in particular the article Jeff posted:

[https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/the\_bootstrapped\_compiler\_and\_the\_damage\_done.html](https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/the_bootstrapped_compiler_and_the_damage_done.html)

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