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Bootstrapping a Compiler via WASM with Loris Cro

Software Unscripted

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The Advantages of Auto Generating C Plus Plus Code

Zinc has a C backend. So you can feed a Zig program to the Z compilation and obtain a C file. We translate to see only after we have resolved comp time, so when you make a build of the Z compiler or any Z program there is no support for this feature. It's an older code base that had survived a bunch of changes and evolutions in the language. And I would argue probably that if people in the Z community were really good at writing C plus plus code, we probably wouldn't be bothering with Z.

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