# Silica is one step closer to being fully self-hosted

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**Category:** Silica Forum\
**Tags:** code, interoperability\
**Created:** [July 31, 2026, 6:13pm UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/silica-is-one-step-closer-to-being-fully-self-hosted/5827 "2026-07-31T18:13:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![LeeB](https://erlangforums.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/4af34b/32.png) [@LeeB](https://erlangforums.com/u/LeeB)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 6:13pm UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/silica-is-one-step-closer-to-being-fully-self-hosted/5827/1 "2026-07-31T18:13:40Z")

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_**The [Silica compiler](https://github.com/yenrab/silica)is one step closer fully self-hosted!!!**_

It’s not a minimal, toy-compiler nor an academic research compiler. It is a full blown compiler for a full blown langauge. It has a LOT of the features we BEAMers are used to using. Want to be involved in the community??? I’d love to have you.

Now on to making some minor tweaks. 🙂

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**Author:** ![ValorZard](https://erlangforums.com/user_avatar/erlangforums.com/valorzard/32/3038_2.png) [@ValorZard](https://erlangforums.com/u/ValorZard)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 6:16am UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/silica-is-one-step-closer-to-being-fully-self-hosted/5827/2 "2026-08-04T06:16:02Z")

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This project looks really interesting, but unfortunately the README looks ai generated and is hard to read. Could that be simplified at all?

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**Author:** ![LeeB](https://erlangforums.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/4af34b/32.png) [@LeeB](https://erlangforums.com/u/LeeB)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2026, 11:55pm UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/silica-is-one-step-closer-to-being-fully-self-hosted/5827/3 "2026-08-21T23:55:07Z")

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It could be. Right now I’m laser focused on getting the compiler fully-self hosted so AI has to be good enough for now, unless someone else would like to take a crack at modifying the README. Only so many hours in every day.

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**Author:** ![LeeB](https://erlangforums.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/4af34b/32.png) [@LeeB](https://erlangforums.com/u/LeeB)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 11:00pm UTC](https://erlangforums.com/t/silica-is-one-step-closer-to-being-fully-self-hosted/5827/4 "2026-08-26T23:00:46Z")

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I had some spare tokens while a compile was going on. Broke the file up into a README.md and a hosted website. The website is very primitive and AI generated. I don’t want to spend the brain cycles on it right now.

Hope this helps. 🙂

> **[Silica](https://yenrab.github.io/silica/)**
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> Memory-safe, functional systems language — secure by default at compile time