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Nim
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TinyGo
Go compiler for small places. Microcontrollers, WebAssembly (WASM/WASI), and command-line tools. Based on LLVM.
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tigerbeetle
The financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance.
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tigerbeetle
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What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
Interesting, I hadn’t run across that but that’s probably just my problem domain. I did find this bug that looks like it was resolved a year ago https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/24184 and I have also read they are doing some other work on floating point that will hopefully address other cross-platform inconsistencies.
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I made a build profiler to understand Bun's compile times
this! - the reason Zig defaults to one semantic analysis thread is due to current (to be improved) limitations; some ideas for Zig also will require one compilation unit - the restricted function pointers proposal being a good example: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/23367
The bun team tried to parallelize Zig's semantic analysis a while back - and it DID compile about 4x as fast... YET the builds were no longer deterministic, which is a hard requirement for lots of things. More effort will need to be spent here than naively adding a thread pool. Hopefully Zig's Sema.zig gets faster, but Rust is also super slow at compiling and needs to improve.
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Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals
> a plan to transition to it for C compilation
That's not planned AFAIK (see https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16269). `translate-c` is only intended for header translation, not C source code.
See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/20875 for the (not fully fleshed out yet) plans around C compilation.
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How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going
Zig does offer some amount of temporal memory safety.
Link: https://zig.guide/standard-library/allocators/
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> The Zig standard library also has a general-purpose debug allocator. This is a safe allocator that can prevent double-free, use-after-free and can detect leaks.
For more detail, see:
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/3180#issuecomment-5284...
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crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C
> WASM-as-IR .. (Is that a thing?)
Yes, actually I've heard of some projects compiling a language to Wasm, then using wasm2c to translate to C.
https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/blob/main/wasm2c/README....
The Zig project does something similar for their bootstrapping process with a custom wasm2c implementation with just the features they need.
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/stage1/wasm2c.c
I get the feeling this is an underappreciated technique with more potential.
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Zig's New BitCast Semantics and LLVM Back End Improvements
So nothing is lost here: if you need, for whatever reason (and those do exist), to get a raw array of underlying bytes, you absolutely may. Std.mem also has bytesToValue(T, bytes) T, which makes a copy. All the ingredients are there, and this family of mem functions are thin wrappers over builtins, which boil down to pointer casting, dereferencing, and comptime magic.
Also worth noting: packed structs in Zig are already defined as logically little-endian: the first field is of low significance, the second is above that, and so on. So this makes `@bitCast` consistent with an existing convention of treating integers as logically little-ended, without regard to how they're actually arrayed in memory.
Plus it stands to make low-level bit-twiddling, using oddly-sized integers, optimize better. I like that, especially when what we trade for that is: nothing. Nothing at all, this is a pure win.
I'd even guess it's that rare language update which silently fixes buggy code, where someone figured "well, basically everything is little-endian already" (or just didn't think about it), and now that code works properly on big-endian machines.
[0]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/19755
- multi_array_list.zig
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Why we're building a Github alternative
The Zig team, moving to Codeberg, described a platform that had lost its edge:
- The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy
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HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'
The Zig project has also left GitHub relatively recently
https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/
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