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		akavel on July 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984) [pdf] For some other projects that more or less explicitly try to approach this challenge from various angles, see e.g.: https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/ https://github.com/akkartik/mu

mbakke on July 12, 2020 [–]

There is also GNU Mes, which is able to build a GCC toolchain starting from nothing but a Scheme interpreter:

https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/

Practical implementation notes can be found on the Guix blog:

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-b...

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstra...

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