Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Author: Paolo Redaelli

Bootstrappable builds

 Bootstrappable builds Compilers are often written in the language they are compiling. This creates a chicken-and-egg problem that leads users and distributors to rely on opaque, pre-built binaries of those compilers that they use to build newer versions of the compiler. To gain trust in our computing platforms, we need to be able to tell…