Looking at Liana, the bootstrap works by compiling an older `rustc` with `mrustc` and then compiling newer `rustc` with the compiled older `rustc`, right? So technically it is bootstrappable.

So that means that there is a way to review the entire chain. Hopefully someone is also doing that.

I only mention Core, because it uses the same bootstap chain, that you could use for LDK, LNDK, Ord, etc. Maybe it would have been better to mention Liana wallet, which is Rust-based and uses this bootstrap chain too.

sedited

I wouldn't trust anything that guy is saying. As far as I know there is a bootstrap for Rust through mrustc, gcc, and finally stage0. Bitcoin Core takes a lot of in pride in only shipping a binary that is built from a fully transparently bootstrapped toolchain using a similar chain of tools.

Lunduke exagerates everything, but that's besides the point, his argument is one logical, not a sensationalist one. Notice that this is not about Core, but the things we run algonside Core, such as LDK, LNDK, Ord, or, why not... even cargo-binutils.

bitdevs

Rust is an existential threat.

> I wouldn't trust anything that guy is saying. As far as I know there is a bootstrap for Rust through mrustc, gcc, and finally stage0. Bitcoin Core takes a lot of in pride in only shipping a binary that is built from a fully transparently bootstrapped toolchain using a similar chain of tools.
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Lunduke exagerates everything, but that's besides the point, his argument is one logical, not a sensationalist one. Notice that this is not about Core, but the things we run algonside Core, such as LDK, LNDK, Ord, or, why not... even cargo-binutils.