The role of femtolisp in Julia?

[stevengj]

@abhi18av

I read in the old archives that there’s a definite plan to have julia self-hosted.

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:

The main problem is that this involves lots of tedious work, after
which you end up with the same thing you started with, just
implemented differently. I’m not even sure I want to use LLVM in any
language but C++, since that’s the language it’s documented in and C++
APIs tend to be highly coupled to the language.

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.