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A Full-Source Bootstrap for NixOS.
This is impressive bachelor thesis, kudos to author: https://nzbr.github.io/nixos-full-source-bootstrap/thesis.pdf
It gave me a thought that guile implementation of build daemon will allow to build Guix itself much earlier in the chain (because we won't need c++, meson, and all other deps required for c++ build daemon).
@abcdw there have been efforts in that direction already by @cbaines see https://yhetil.org/guix-devel/87cysqn2ko.fsf@cbaines.net/
not needing c++ etc. during bootstrapping guix would be pretty huge
@abcdw @theesm @cbaines
Germ0 replaces all of stage0, including m2-planet at the cost of, currently, only supporting x86_64-linux.
Germ replaces the mes interpreter, with the same caveat. There's just been an Aarch64 port of Mes and MesCC getting contributed.
The work of @ekaitz_zarraga making mes faster is more promising in the way of eventually replacing tcc.
So Germ will use Mes and the Mes C library but we may probably see even some more kind of merge between both projects, who knows? Exciting stuff!
