I was doing something like that with https://github.com/darius/tinyhiss https://github.com/darius/tinyhiss but it's really a toy and still far from freestanding

I was doing something like that with https://github.com/darius/tinyhiss https://github.com/darius/tinyhiss but it's really a toy and still far from freestanding. https://github.com/darius/ichbins https://github.com/darius/ichbins did get to the point of compiling itself, but it was a little too limited to make a good start on growing into a system I'd like to use.