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Writing a C Compiler, in Zig

36 points by tosh

by fuhsnn

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Looking at the repo, the author seemed a little fed up [1] with the nature of lower level language and quitted.
[1] https://github.com/asibahi/paella/blob/main/writeup/c19.md#u...

by scatbot

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Cool project. Feels like writing a C compiler in Zig aligns nicely with the old "maintain it in Zig" idea that was part of Zig's early value proposition. Is that still considered a relevant goal today?
Longer term it also makes me wonder whether something like this could eventually reduce reliance on Clang/LLVM for the C frontend in zig's toolchain.

by flossly

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I thought Zig has a C compiler built in? Or is it just the Zig build system that's able to compile C, but uses an external compiler for that?
Still a proper programmer-flex to build another one.