[chrfrasco]

This is so cool. I especially loved the Makefile, it's nice to see "bootstrapping" laid out so plainly. I remember finding the concept quite hard to wrap my head around when I was introduced to it. Seeing this would have made it a lot easier to understand!

[dane-pgp]

If you like well-documented bootstrap processes, I can recommend this:

https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/part...

The steps go from a binary seed of a few hundred bytes to (almost) gcc. It is still being actively developed as part of the Bootstrappable Builds project:

https://www.bootstrappable.org/

[pabs3]

A PDF containing a graph of the process:

https://github.com/oriansj/talk-notes/blob/master/live-boots...

[chrfrasco]

> I wonder if we could reduce binary size with a dead-simple scheduler and GC

For many CLIs I think even a brain-dead bump allocator would work

[Hello71]

musl automatically uses a bump allocator if free is not referenced in the program.

[tetha]

A programming language professor working on interpreters once said - for short-living processes the most effective and efficient garbage processing might be... not to and terminating the process. The OS will collect all garbage at once very quickly. So why bother time spending being smart?