# 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 ***