zig VS zig-bootstrap

There is an issue proposing this approach: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/4284

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/224

e.g.:

> > When debugging/prototyping, it's useful to comment out a line without having to refactor, e.g.

When writing code in a scripting language, sometimes you need that extra bit of performance (or maybe an async feature from Zig).

NodeJS is by no means a slow runtime, it wouldn’t be so popular if it was. But compared to Bun, it’s slow. Bun was built from the ground up with speed in mind, using both JavascriptCore and Zig. The Bun team spent an enormous amount of time and energy trying to make Bun fast, including lots of profiling, benchmarking, and optimizations.

ntdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart()

There are valid reasons to use APIs from NTDLL. Where I disagree with zig#1840 is the idea that it is always better to use NTDLL versions of API. Every other software ecosystem uses the standard Win32 APIs and diverging from that without a good reason seems like a good way to have unexpected behavior. One concrete example is most users and programmers expect Windows to redirect some file system paths when running on WOW64. But this is implemented in Kernel32, not ntdll.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/11894

Zig also has an IRC channel on libera (#zig) that is moderated by Andrew Kelley.[1]

[1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Community

if you know what compiler target is used on your pi 2 you can probably get someone to cross compile it for you. https://github.com/ziglang/zig-bootstrap This should be reasonably easy to use.

Use Zig Bootstrap, it is easier. And It should work on 16gb.

you can cross compile for armv7a with zig-bootstrap

They have a project for maintaining this: https://github.com/ziglang/zig-bootstrap

I think that's the purpose of the zig-bootstrap project. By having these dependencies installed: clang, llvm, python3, cmake (notice no zig) you end up with zig compiled.

The current state is that they offer a repo with LLVM and the stage1 (C++) compiler, which should build on any system that can build LLVM (so any system with a modern C++ compiler and build tools). Or you can grab the upstream Zig code and build it against regular LLVM 12 yourself using an existing LLVM 12 clang/etc stack.