The Story of Squeak, A Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself https://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/wolfgang.kreutzer/cosc205/squeak.html (builds a self hosting impl then translates to C)
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https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-story-of-vaccinateca/
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