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zig cc: a Powerful Drop-In Replacement for GCC/Clang - Andrew Kelley (andrewkelley.me)

submitted 1 year ago by planish@sh.itjust.works to c/programming@programming.dev

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Through witchcraft and dark magic, Zig contains a C standard library and cross compiler for every architecture in 45 megabytes.

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't Zig currently planning to remove the LLVM backend? https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16270

Wouldn't this means zig will lose support for many architectures currently supported via LLVM?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

No, here

Note that there would still be an LLVM backend for outputting .bc files (#13265), but the Zig compiler would lack the capability to compile .bc files into object files. LLVM or Clang would need to be installed and invoked separately for that use case.

You'd just need LLVM separately but Zig would still be able to make files that LLVM can handle.