[aa0]

While it may be cool that Kal compiles itself, unless there is a source tree for the Kal binaries themselves, there is a indubitably huge issue of trust with distributing binaries.

Relevant: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

[spicyj]

The article links to that very page:

> anarbi posted a great [link] about how compilers can contain a memory of things that are no longer in the code.