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1. zig

   1 875 38,710 10.0 Zig

   General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

   

   Not quite - what you said is true for a hypothetical "stage4" however there is a distinct difference between stage2 and stage3. While they are built from the same source code, and therefore have the same logic, they are lowered by different backends, meaning they will have potentially drastically different performance characteristics depending on the differences between the stage1 and stage2 backend, respectively.

   Related: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/12183

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3. zls

   2 15 3,705 9.7 Zig

   A Zig language server supporting Zig developers with features like autocomplete and goto definition

   

4. zig-bootstrap

   3 9 454 8.2 C

   take off every zig

   

   They have a project for maintaining this: https://github.com/ziglang/zig-bootstrap

5. live-bootstrap

   4 38 621 8.9 Shell

   Use of a Linux initramfs to fully automate the bootstrapping process

   

6. mrustc

   5 75 2,283 9.6 C++

   Alternative rust compiler (re-implementation)

   

   Since February, the mrustc project [0] has been capable of bootstrapping a relatively-recent Rust compiler from C++. (It would take another 8 Rust-to-Rust steps to reach the latest stable version.) I've personally tested it on my x86_64-linux-gnu machine, but I don't know how tough it would be to get it to support new targets.

   [0] https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc

7. bootstrap-seeds

   6 6 89 5.2 Assembly

   The roots of trust for all architectures

   

   Yeah, it's a binary blob, but it's small enough to be easily auditable. Anyone with some knowledge of x86 assembly can read the annotated version [1] and verify that it does what it claims (which is to convert ASCII hex with comments into binary).

   You're right, it also requires a Linux kernel, and of course, you also have to trust the hardware you're running it on. Still, it reduces the amount of stuff we have to take for granted as trusted, which I think is a good thing. (I'm not involved in the project, just an admirer).

   [1]: https://github.com/oriansj/bootstrap-seeds/blob/b09a8b8cbcb6...

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