This is where we introduce the Bootstrappable Builds project. To me, this is one of the most fascinating projects in the open source community. It’s basically code alchemy.
Their Linux bootstrap process starts with a 512-byte binary seed. This seed contains what’s possibly the simplest compiler you can imagine: it takes hexadecimal digits and outputs the corresponding raw bytes. As an example, here part of the “source code” that’s compiled with this compiler.