Mes

Maxwells Equations of Software.
This is a program by Jan Nieuwenhuizen to reduce the bootstrap binaries of GuixSD to nothing!


 * Video: guix talk about mes
 * Mes 0.5 released


 * Bourne shell compiler frontend (related to guix and bootstrapping)

Architecture
mes implements a lisp interpreter written in C, that is able to run mescc which by using nyacc for parsing and mescc-tools for linking functions as a C compiler.

mescc includes its own libc, written in C and is able to compile mes thus providing a full loop bootstrap.

Diagram

 * https://gitlab.com/janneke/guix/blob/affb2e11859b3bb03fdfe0e223e51d97cdc630b3/gnu/packages/commencement.scm

Here is a diagram showing the mes based bootstrap packages for GuixSD.