If you need a compiled compiler to compile compilers, how do you know that there's no spyware secretly propagating itself?
hex0 is "a hex assembler written in hex" -- basically several bytes of raw machine code "with a shitload of comments" which translates text to bytes
hex0 translates hex1
which translates M0
which assembles M1/hex2
which assembles M2-Planet
which assembles mes
🆕 which compiles tinycc
which compiles gcc
which compiles the OS!
https://github.com/oriansj/mescc-tools/blob/master/test/test1/hex0.hex0
@pho4cexa Back in the GOOD OL DAYS people would sit down and assemble a Pascal compiler by hand, or so I hear tell.
Back when beards had men attached, women kept nanoseconds in their purses, and we had rooms filled with computer instead of a room filled with computers.
@pho4cexa Though that's frankly for machines and this is a pretty awesome bootstrap setup.
