Is Golang Compiler Open Source? (From Noob)

• go

  2,070 119,564 10.0 Go

  The Go programming language

  

• live-bootstrap

  28 264 9.4 Shell

  Use of a Linux initramfs to fully automate the bootstrapping process

Thankfully there are multiple Go implementations so you can bootstrap using gccgo as well. And you can bootstrap the gcc toolchain (including gccgo) in various ways, for example using this process from a minimal binary seed: https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap

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• trusttrust

  1 11 10.0 C

  Sample code for "Reflections on trusting trust" by Ken Thompson

The Go compiler is written in Go. To "bootstrap", you need Go version 1.4, which had a compiler written in C. Oh, and to bootstrap that, you need GCC, which is a compiler written in C. To bootstrap that, you need a C compiler written in assembly. To bootstrap that, you need to type in your assembler in hex. To bootstrap that, you enter the data for your assembler into memory by flipping switches on the front panel. (Newer computers don't ship with these panels, so you better hope nothing gets corrupted on the way.)

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