Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

• mrustc

  75 2,185 5.5 C++

  Alternative rust compiler (re-implementation)

• SaaSHub

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  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• nixpkgs

  1,006 18,338 10.0 Nix

  Nix Packages collection & NixOS

  

  Relevant is https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/85542 , a (very stale) PR that uses mrustc to get straight to Rust 1.29 and then walks the chain.

• neat

  3 111 9.3 D

  The Neat Language compiler. Early beta? (by Neat-Lang)

  

  Funny sidestory: The way my compiler ( https://github.com/neat-lang/neat ) used to build is, two years ago there was an initial compiler that was written in D. And every time you checked it out on a new system, there was a file with a list of breaking commits, and it would:

  - git clone itself in a subfolder

• archlinux-installer-script

  29 1 2.4 Shell

  Arch Linux install script. Only performs the minimal steps for booting into arch. 75 lines of script with full progress messages and tutorial.

  I haven't installed it since ~2016/2017, so my knowledge might be outdated. If you use one of the arch-based distros with a GUI, then you're right that it's very easy to install.

  If you follow the Wiki though, I think you still learn quite a bit: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/installation_guide

• c4

  11 9,765 0.0 C

  C in four functions

  The C4 compiler [https://github.com/rswier/c4] is a self-hosting compiler for a subset of the C programming language that produces executable x86 code. You can understand and audit this code in a couple of hours (its 528 lines).

  It could be an interesting exercise to bootstrap up from something like this to a working linux environment based solely on source code compilation : no binary inputs. Of course a full linux environment has way too much source code for one person or team to audit, but at least it rules out RoTT style binary compiler contamination.

• stage0

  23 932 3.9 Assembly

  A set of minimal dependency bootstrap binaries

• mescc-tools-seed

  8 106 5.5 C

  A place for public review of the posix port of stage0

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