Rust and GCC, two different ways [LWN.net]

Rust and GCC, two different ways

Posted Oct 10, 2021 8:03 UTC (Sun) by ms_43 (subscriber, #99293)
In reply to: Rust and GCC, two different ways by robert_s
Parent article: Rust and GCC, two different ways

Given that all FLOSS C++ compilers are implemented in C++ these days, there is less improvement in the bonkitude of the bootstrapping process to be had than one might naively assume.

Rust and GCC, two different ways

Posted Oct 20, 2021 3:41 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

The Bootstrappable Builds folks are working on a full bootstrap from a small number of bytes of bare metal machine code all the way up to a full Linux distro. They've already achieved quite a bit of that path.

https://bootstrappable.org/
https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/p...
https://github.com/oriansj/talk-notes/blob/master/live-bo...