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 <zapps...@lists.z.cash.foundation> wrote: > 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 > > -- US phone:+1 (650) 492-8286 http://www.google.com/profiles/zmanian
