# Self-Hosting **Domain:** Software Architecture / Programming Languages **Doc Type:** Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[ALGOL]], [[Master Control Program]], [[Self-Reference]], [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] ## Definition A self-hosting compiler or system is implemented using the language or environment it is responsible for compiling or sustaining. ## Bauhaus Architects Context Self-hosting is operational reflexivity: symbolic machinery helps reproduce the machinery that interprets it, without implying consciousness or [[Gödelian Analogy|Gödelian]] incompleteness. ## Backlinks - [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] - [[articles/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]]