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Being curious about how maven works exactly, I’ve checked out its source codes. Astonishingly, the maven modules are built themselves by maven. Can someone help me to understand how could this be possible?
Precisely, how is the maven binary, which is used to build maven sources, compiled?
As indicated by the comment, the original version was probably compiled by a different compiler, but subsequent versions have since been bootstrapped.
Edit: as noted I meant built, not compiled. My mistake