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“Trusting Trust” is one of my favorites. I bootstrapped Go 1.14 for FreeBSD 8, with a couple of patches for older syscalls, but I didn't go as far as bootstrap

by aarchi 5y ago

“Trusting Trust” is one of my favorites. I bootstrapped Go 1.14 for FreeBSD 8, with a couple of patches for older syscalls, but I didn't go as far as bootstrapping GCC. I wanted to build a tool that would automatically bootstrap Go (gc and gccgo), but I lost momentum before finishing. More recently, I bootstrapped Rebol 3, which is a self-hosted compiler, but I couldn't get to the bottom turtle since old versions were closed-source.

pabs3 5y ago
One way out of the Rebol situation is to implement a minimal interpreter/compiler for the self-hosted language using another language, build the language using that and then rebuild the language using itself. The Bootstrappable Builds folks are working on that for a few things, for eg Scala: https://framagit.org/tyreunom/scabo/ https://framagit.org/tyreunom/scabo/