You write the first version of the compiler in Jav...

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[karelpeeters]

You write the first version of the compiler in Java, and then you compile the next version with the previous Kotlin compiler and so on. Lots of languages do this: GCC and CLang are written in C++, Rust compiler is written in Rust, ... It's called self-hosting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting