Smallest possible self-hosting zig compiler

• fngi

  0 58 8.3 C

  a readable language that grows from the silicon

  

  I've been writing my own language, fngi, which is inspired by Forth to create an extremely minimal language. However, I'm considering doing a rewrite and in so doing am taking a second look at some other languages.

• qbe-rs

  9 64 3.3 Rust

  QBE IR in natural Rust data structures

  So my question is this: if a backend like QBE (~12k Loc) was added to Zig and Zig only had to compile Zig code (no C, etc) for that QBE backend -- about how many LoC would that Zig need to be?

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• zigenesis

  0 9 10.0 Zig

  Build ANY project in ANY Language with Zig.

  

  First, I recently started a new project in this area that might interest you: https://github.com/bettertools/zigenesis

• zig

  147 30,161 10.0 Zig

  General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

  

  Next, you've come at a very exciting time, that C++ LOC number was alot higher yesterday. Last night Andrew merged a change to remove the old stage1 C++ compiler which removed about 100,000 LOC (https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/13560). The bootstrap process for Zig from a C compiler is pretty "interesting" now. Zig includes a compiled version of itself inside the repo now that is in the WASM format and also includes a WASM interpreter written in C...both of which are used to bootstrap from a C toolchain now.

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