Furry Programmers @pawb.social Capital @pawb.social 2y ago

Zig Plans on Removing LLVM Libraries.

github.com make the main zig executable no longer depend on LLVM, LLD, and Clang libraries · Issue #16270 · ziglang/zig

This issue is to fully eliminate LLVM, Clang, and LLD libraries from the Zig project. The remaining ties to these projects are as follows: #8726 #8727 #17749 #17751 #17750 LLVM #13265 C backend - 1...

Seems like zig is about to take on a massive task. I'm curious how well they'll reach their goals.

Programming Languages @programming.dev armchair_progamer @programming.dev 2y ago

Zig: File for Divorce from LLVM

github.com /ziglang/zig/issues/16270

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It's stated in the issue that it's just a proposal for now. Personally I never considered zig because I didn't know that it could act as a c/c++ compiler, knowing about this I'm a little bit more interested in checking zig out (as a game dev a lot of my libraries are c/c++ only). I'm pretty sure having this feature stripped off could be a major blocker for a wider adoption of tbe language
- I personally like seeing what's being made in the world of programming languages. So, I keep tabs on any promising project. But, yeah, I definitely agree that the loss of C++ and C compilation would be huge blow to Zig.