[Nix-dev] Bootstrapping nix

[Vladimír Čunát]

Hi.
Continuing the topic from: [Nix-dev] Building a GNU 0.401 ISO
On 1 April 2011 14:19, Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl> wrote:
> This is unnecessary.  Just the other day I was talking with Rob about
> bootstrapping Nix in Nix, since any serious language can build itself.  This
> shouldn't be too hard to do, and the performance impact should be relatively
> negligible.

I'm not sure what advantages will that have, could you point me/us to
some source?

Vlada