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<LaurentH>stikonas: support for more platforms is on the roadmap. We applied to get some funding to port to ARM and RISC-V so hopefully some time this year

<LaurentH>aggi: we see the bootstrap from an existing shell as a pragmatic solution against trusting trust attacks, not really as a pure "full-source bootstrap"

<LaurentH>One problem with bootstrapping from the shell is that it can be very slow, so once we bootstrap a machine code executable, we don't really want to go back to pnut-generated shell scripts

<aggi>LaurentH: without doubt it is a fascinating idea, and an interesting thesis to graduate with a Master degree

<aggi>peer-review is usual routine, to defend a scientific paper, and your thesis is worth discussing

<aggi>with a scientific paper, limitations and future prospects are mentioned with a final note

<aggi>even when a project can't accomplish all goals, it can still be excellent work

<aggi>but it is important to be aware of limitations

<aggi>with regards to bootstrapping that is the necessity to target a kaem type interpreter which was written in ASM

<aggi>i wouldn't recommend this, because kaem design might be good as it is now, sufficient to re-establish a complete bootstrapping chain without circular dependency

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