Exploring Zig as a Build System and its Interoperability with C

The ZigLang team have put an astonishing amount of effort into making Zig work an effective tool for compiling C across different architectures. Work that benefits the Zig language, but also has a chance to benefit languages like Python and Rust. Or indeed, any language that uses native C libraries somewhere in its stack.

So this week we’re joined by Loris Cro of the Zig team to dive into how you make a reliable, cross-platform toolchain that can compile C anywhere it finds it. And in doing so, 

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Zig Homepage: https://ziglang.org/

Zig on Github: https://github.com/ziglang/zig

MingW for Windows: https://www.mingw-w64.org/

All Your Codebase: https://allyourcodebase.com/

Ziglang on PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/ziglang/

Shout out to Whitequark: https://pypi.org/user/whitequark/

Darling: https://www.darlinghq.org/

WineHQ: https://www.winehq.org/

PyPi Stats: https://pypistats.org/packages/__all__

The Zine static site generator: https://zine-ssg.io/

The Zine source code: https://github.com/kristoff-it/zine

Loris’ website: https://kristoff.it/

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