News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Mugo, a toy compiler for a subset of Go that can compile itself. Parent comment

Re:Mugo, a toy compiler for a subset of Go that can compile ... by dane-pgp on Monday April 12, 2021 @01:31PM (#26782374)
If you like well-documented bootstrap processes, I can recommend this:

https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/part...

The steps go from a binary seed of a few hundred bytes to (almost) gcc. It is still being actively developed as part of the Bootstrappable Builds project:

https://www.bootstrappable.org/

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Mugo, a toy compiler for a subset of Go that can compile ... by pabs3 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:30AM (#26788433)
A PDF containing a graph of the process:

https://github.com/oriansj/talk-notes/blob/master/live-boots...

[ Parent | on HN ]