How I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days

Self-hosting is pointless. Go has it--who cares. I wrote a program 1000x faster than the ruby one (at work) with zero bugs in Go, but I still don't want to use it(Go). Java is fine. Do I care if Java is self-hosting? No. I'll do (another) language in Javacc (my first one is still awesome) or ANTLR.

If you want to create a self sufficient system then it isn't pointless at all. That just happens to be something that isn't in your requirements.