[berfarah]

This might be a dumb question: What happens if you find a bug in the language? Let's say something that you had written in C was being misinterpreted, and now the go compiler still uses that byte-code to compile new versions of the compiler.

Or is that something that isn't really possible?

[emmab]

You should read Reflections on Trusting Trust, it expands on this idea in the most beautiful way: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...

[jlouis]

I think Russ showed the translated code produces the same binaries as the Go 1.4 C variant. So this isn't very likely given he has the option to pipe roughly any Open Source Go project through the compiler.