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 world
I 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.
You’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.
"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
From https://ziglang.org/intro/overview/
What does that have to do with portability? It doesn’t support a bunch of CPU architectures, the portability metric I care about.
I 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.
I/my agent somehow integrated it into a C++ app on Windows. So one way or another, it does work.
Zig is even more portable than C
You’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.
"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
Is it? I think zig use llvm codegen. Once you got llvm for your architecture, you get 99% of modern language