Where the beta compiler(maybe stage0?) come from?
Rust Internals [Unofficial]
May 15, 2026
It's a previous build of the compiler, which has been built with previous build of the compiler, which has been built with previous build of the compiler… which has been built by a Rust prototype compiler written in Ocaml.
If you want to build Rust fully from source without using pre-built binary, this process is called bootstrapping. See mrustc compiler.
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