there's a hypothetical compiler exploit that i always thought was a bit out there but it was a big deal with some folks, and i haven't heard anyone talk about it in a hot minute. the gist is, you mak...
@nprofile1q... How often are things built with official binaries?
There have been a few attempts to solve this, notably nixpkgs and guix bootstrap their entire systems from source, with the only binary being under 1kib. self-hosting languages provide a problem though.
aiui guix tries a bit harder to solve that problem, e.g. their rust is bootstrapped from mrustc and many stages of rustc versions.
There have been a few attempts to solve this, notably nixpkgs and guix bootstrap their entire systems from source, with the only binary being under 1kib. self-hosting languages provide a problem though.
aiui guix tries a bit harder to solve that problem, e.g. their rust is bootstrapped from mrustc and many stages of rustc versions.