Aro – Zig's new C compiler
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Aro – Zig's new C compiler
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Re: Aro – Zig's new C compiler
#2It would be interesting to see how well it optimizes compared to the established players. The fact that it handles C23 and common GNU extensions is already impressive.
Re: Aro – Zig's new C compiler
#3Very nice, honestly the tooling around Zig is even more impressive than the language itself.
Re: Aro – Zig's new C compiler
#4Zig is amazing. What started as a one-man project is becoming a mature software ecosystem capable of standing on its own as a peer with the major languages.
Re: Aro – Zig's new C compiler
#5It would be interesting to see how well it optimizes compared to the established players. The fact that it handles C23 and common GNU extensions is already impressive.
I agree it does seem very impressive. My first thought was that they must be using LLVM for the backend, but it looks like no, it's fully 'self-contained'.
Re: Aro – Zig's new C compiler
#6There's doesn't appear to a whole lot of comments or documentation in the code. Is this normal for Zig projects? Does it have an equivalent of Sphinx to build docs from code?
Re: Aro – Zig's new C compiler
#7There's doesn't appear to a whole lot of comments or documentation in the code. Is this normal for Zig projects? Does it have an equivalent of Sphinx to build docs from code?
Zig has a documentation generator that uses specially formatted comments, similar to godoc or JSDoc.
Re: Aro – Zig's new C compiler
#8I'm not all that familiar with the Zig tool chain.
Am I understanding correctly that this is a regular C compiler used as a component of the Zig compiler chain allowing compilation of C files alongside Zig? Or does Zig generate C and therefore need a C compiler under the hood?
Looking at the documentation suggests it is the former, not the latter.
Re: Aro – Zig's new C compiler
#9There's doesn't appear to a whole lot of comments or documentation in the code. Is this normal for Zig projects? Does it have an equivalent of Sphinx to build docs from code?
Re: Aro – Zig's new C compiler
#10The dlang D compiler includes a full C compiler, so you can mix and match C and D code. You can import C code from D, and D code from C.
dmd hello.c
./hello
hello world