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Re:Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984) [pdf] by akavel on Sunday July 12, 2020 @02:11AM (#23809266)
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

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Re:Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984) [pdf] by mbakke on Sunday July 12, 2020 @06:25AM (#23810341)
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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