# 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]]