This is no longer true.
The rust compiler can be bootstrapped with an independent implementation
https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc#progress
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 6:05 PM Devrandom via zapps-wg
wrote:
> As a reminder - the issue is that we can't prove
As a reminder - the issue is that we can't prove that the Rust compiler is
malware free, because it is compiled with itself.
The submitted issue is here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/48707
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## Hardware used:
Hardware:
Intel Core i7-4710HQ
RAM 8GB DDR3
Ubuntu server 14.04
## Procedure for computation:
I performed the computation on a laptop that had not been used or touched