From https://ziglang.org/intro/overview/
reply Zig is also a C compiler
Here’s an example of Zig building some C code:
hello.c
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv) {
> printf("Hello world\n");
> return 0;
> }
$ zig build-exe hello.c -lc
$ ./hello
> Hello worldWhat does that have to do with portability? It doesn’t support a bunch of CPU architectures, the portability metric I care about.
replyI misread the comment I was replying to, thinking it was about using Zig to port something, when it was actually about porting something that uses Zig.
replyI/my agent somehow integrated it into a C++ app on Windows. So one way or another, it does work.
replyZig is even more portable than C
replyYou’re kidding right? That’s not what the support matrix on the Zig site shows. Plenty of CPU archs in Tier 3/4. No support for Alpha, HPPA, M68K, Sparc, or SuperH.
reply"portable" and "has ports" mean two different things. there might be targets Zig doesn't have great support for yet but what I meant is that bootstrapping a target to Zig is a simpler endeavor than it is for C
replyIs it? I think zig use llvm codegen. Once you got llvm for your architecture, you get 99% of modern language
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