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GNU Mes and the 0.28 release

Ekaitz announces the GNU Mes 0.28 release, reflecting on his journey from R&D-focused work to maintaining and delivering software. The post explores the tension between his instinct to demonstrate ideas and the responsibility of seeing projects through to release, with mentions of RISC-V bootstrap work on Guix.

Background

GNU Mes is a minimal, bootstrappable C compiler that enables reproducible builds and secure bootstrapping. The author co-maintains it and has been working on RISC-V bootstrap support within the Guix package manager ecosystem.

Source
Lobsters
Published
Nov 5, 2026 at 09:30 PM
Score
5.0 / 10