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The resulting C would not be “source code”. Edit to explain further: the point is for the code to be written (or at least auditable) by humans.

• ncruces 2y ago
  As long both rust-to-wasm (or zig-to-wasm) and wasm2c are auditable, and every step reproducible, why do you need the generated C to be auditable?
  • School-Cotton 2y ago
    The point is to shorten the minimal bootstrap path to Rust. With your suggestion you can't use rust until after you already have rust-to-wasm transpiler available (which almost certainly itself already requires rust, so you are back where you started).
  • ludocode 2y ago
    The generated C code could contain a backdoor. Generated C is not really auditable so there would be no way to tell that the code is compromised.
  • pabs3 2y ago
    The article mentions that the Bootstrappable Builds folks don't allow pre-generated code in their processes, they always have to build or bootstrap it from the real source.