Re:Show HN: My C compiler compiled itself
by pabs3 on Thursday December 05, 2024 @07:12PM
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These folks say that you do need that in 2024 (commented machine code actually):
https://bootstrappable.org/ https://lwn.net/Articles/983340/
Taking this process to the extreme, no one could ever bootstrap anything because eventually you're bootstrapping mineral extraction.