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Aug 24, 2018 at 19:29
The vast majority of PLs are either self-hosted or implemented in a systems language (one without GC). The only exceptions I can think of are PureScript, Elm (both written in Haskell), Hack (partly uses OCaml) and Clojure (Java). Are there others? Is it a good tradeoff?

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