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Bootstrapping a Compiler via WASM with Loris Cro

Software Unscripted

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The Limitations of Zig Compiler

In theory, hypothetically, there could exist some world in which zig's comp time gets translated automatically to see macros. But a I don't even know if that's possible because I just don't know what the limitations of C macros are. Even assuming it were possible, it's a fact that the compiler does not do this today. So that's just not a viable solution. That's exactly right. I think it's a very hard problem. And in any case, as you said, it's something that we don't have today. It would require a serious investment of effort and we don't want to invest too much into the bootstrapping procedure. We kind of want

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