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• zig

  816 30,631 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

• zls

  14 2,359 9.8 Zig

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

  

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• zig-bootstrap

  8 332 7.1 C

  take off every zig

  

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

• live-bootstrap

  28 264 9.4 Shell

  Use of a Linux initramfs to fully automate the bootstrapping process

• mrustc

  75 2,083 9.0 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

• bootstrap-seeds

  6 72 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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