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Go's implementation is in Go + may be some assembly.

• yberreby 10y ago
  That doesn't make it immune to memory unsafety, because the initial implementation had to be written in something other than Go, namely C. And the current compiler was compiled by an older compiler, which was itself compiled by an older one, ..., which was itself compiled by the initial Go compiler, written in C.
  • b2384912 10y ago
    Are they seriously not using an interpreter to compile the current version with itself?
    • mcguire 10y ago
      "Reflections on Trusting Trust", Ken Thompson. https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...