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Re:Zig Programming Language 0.1.1: First beta release by keithnz on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @07:39PM (#15495862)
Nearly every platform has a C compiler. Many embedded platforms have almost no language alternatives. No way Zig ( or Rust, or Go ) is ever going to target them all.
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Re:Zig Programming Language 0.1.1: First beta release by Gaelan on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:11PM (#15496621)
LLVM aims to solve this problem. (Side note: is there an LLVM backend for C?)
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Re:Zig Programming Language 0.1.1: First beta release by tiehuis on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @12:10AM (#15496833)
There was, but it was removed in LLVM 3.1 [1].

It seems as there have been some attempts to revitalize it [2] but these are targeting older versions and would probably require a lot more work to ever get back in-tree.

[1] http://releases.llvm.org/3.1/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

[2] https://github.com/JuliaComputing/llvm-cbe

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