Fedora project leader Matthew Miller weighs in (TechRepublic)

Languages are useful software in their own right, and worth packaging for the same reasons as any other. Point taken, though, I don't expect Hare to make its way into stable distributions like Debian (sans sid) for some time. As for interesting projects, take your pick:

https://sr.ht/~vladh/hare-project-library/

Most of these are not done.

>Will Hare always be bootstrappable solely from source without any of its own binaries?

Yes, this is a key design choice of the Hare toolchain. We will maintain the C compiler indefinitely, though we do plan on making a second self-hosted compiler available. The language itself will be frozen at 1.0 so the maintenance burden of two compilers is relatively small.