Comment by jaccarmac

Smalltalk can use a similar bootstrapping method, which blew my mind the first time I read and understood (see https://ftp.squeak.org/docs/OOPSLA.Squeak.html, "Smalltalk to C Translation"). In that world, images can easily obscure some of the lineage. Scheme has the advantage of having a standard to hold dialects to. I am watching this project with interest.