Zig's New Relationship with LLVM

Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by aidenn0 on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:43AM (#24616503)

With PIC, incremental compilation, and function calls through a GOT, can Zig patch a running binary as well?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by ifreund on Monday September 28, 2020 @09:51AM (#24616566)

You're totally right that at least 90% of the infrastructure is there. Andrew's been threatening to implement hot code swapping in a live stream but has been busy with other tasks it seems.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by aidenn0 on Monday September 28, 2020 @06:55PM (#24622110)

With the proper editor integration, that would sell me on Zig; that's easily in my top 5 features that keeps me with Lisp.

[ Parent | on HN ]