>...glibc needs python to build itself, but python needs glibc. Surely there must be a glibc which predates the Python dependency. Why can they not build the p

>...glibc needs python to build itself, but python needs glibc. Surely there must be a glibc which predates the Python dependency. Why can they not build the prior glibc version and use successive releases to iteratively build up the platform? Not technically satisfying, plus probably some turtles-all-the-way-down situation where there was a pre-Python dependency which is equally hairy, but conceptually, I do not understand the limitation. Too late for the mountains of existing software, but I know Zig took some effort to address the bootstrap problem by relying upon a WASM seed.