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Re:Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consisten... by kristoff_it on Sunday March 07, 2021 @06:19AM (#26374988)
One subtle but extremely important feature of Zig's comptime is that is emulates the target architecture. Fundamental for implementing correct cross compilation.
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Re:Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consisten... by elcritch on Sunday March 07, 2021 @04:22PM (#26379893)
That's pretty impressive. It's always annoying to get bit struct alignment issues. :/
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