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diff --git a/notes/boot.md b/notes/boot.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..758d264 --- /dev/null +++ b/notes/boot.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +# Bootstrapping Zisp + +In my opinion, any serious programming language must have a serious +bootstrapping strategy that addresses the "Trusting Trust" issue aka +the Thompson Hack. The easiest way to do that is making sure that +your language can be bootstrapped from an existing language, which +itself has some solution to the problem. + +Currently, I'm thinking of implementing Zisp in Zig. (That's not the +entire reason Zisp is called Zisp, and I might choose a different +language eventually, and/or rename Zisp, but anyway.) + +Zig, in turn, will *hopefully* be possible to bootstrap from C in the +future, or some language implemented in C. For C, there are some ways +to bootstrap it from scratch. + +*** WIP *** |