I decided to bootstrap Zig without using binaries that are checked in the repository and answer if the resulting zig1.wasm in the latest Zig release (0.13.0) is the same the one bootstrapped without using those binaries. TLDR: yes, they are the same: $ sha256sum code/zig{,2}/stage1/zig1.wasm 127909fb8c9610ce3f296d8a48014546c0f85055115002fb3aba4d865dcdbb27 code/zig/stage1/zig1.wasm 127909fb8c9610ce3f296d8a48014546c0f85055115002fb3aba4d865dcdbb27 code/zig2/stage1/zig1.wasm I can now confidently ...