[foobarchu]

> how hard it would be to bootstrap the language?..

I would think this is impossible, since this language is designed to be non-turing complete and forbids arbitrary side effects. You would always need a container language to make anything happen

[avmich]

The C language also requires some assembly, or rather machine code, if you're starting strictly from scratch.

Ok, not bootstrap in a sense of creating a sublanguage which allows to write the rest. I'm curious about how to write Dhall in C. Dhall doesn't look like a large language, right?