Hi Laurant,

On Fri, Feb 06, 2026 at 01:37:11PM -0500, Laurent Huberdeau wrote:
> I recently finished my master's thesis[0] arguing for the use of POSIX
> shell for diverse double-compilation and reproducible builds. It also
> presents pnut[1], a C compiler capable of bootstrapping itself and TCC
> (Linux i386) exclusively from any POSIX-compliant shell (bash, ksh, dash,
> zsh, etc.) and human-readable source files.
> 
> Curious to hear your thoughts!

that's lovely, awesome and also a bit scary! Kudos! :)

> [0]: A fully reproducible C toolchain rooted on POSIX shell,
> https://umontreal.scholaris.ca/items/2f44323a-9f4f-482a-98be-542d8ee5b9fb

I shall add it to https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/publications/ or maybe
someone else will be quicker.

& also thanks for sharing this here!


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