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I’ve never used Go myself, but according to this https://go.dev/doc/install/source you need a Go compiler to compile Go. However, for the early versions, you needed a C compiler to compile Go.

So at some point, someone wrote enough of a Go GC in C to support enough of Go to compile itself.




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