Security, bootstrapping, and transparency
Security, bootstrapping, and transparency
Posted Aug 1, 2021 7:13 UTC (Sun) by oldtomas (guest, #72579)In reply to: Security, bootstrapping, and transparency by peter-b
Parent article: Tor gets financial support for Arti development
This is nearly ironic, because the person you're asking is involved in a large project which, among other things, tries to tackle bootstrapping in a very systematic manner.
Had you followed the Guix links given to you, you might have stumbled upon interesting things.
Here's specifically something about bootstrapping C in Guix's context:
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-see...
Actually, bootstrapping C has a long and rich history, with several minimalist C compilers being built to build more complete compilers on top.