Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang (2020)

Re:Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang (2020) by steveklabnik on Sunday July 18, 2021 @05:15PM (#27876750)

Sure, like many things, I bet you could pick three or four and get 90% of the default coverage. That still helps 90% of the users.

I also think you're really missing out on the "compile C code easily too" thing. That isn't very pleasant at all in Rust today.

(Finally, one reason it’s so big is that we ship binaries. This ships source. std-aware cargo could really help here.)

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Re:Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang (2020) by littlestymaar on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:13AM (#27890877)

> I also think you're really missing out on the "compile C code easily too" thing. That isn't very pleasant at all in Rust today.

So much this. Cross compiling pure Rust code is really easy today but as soon as you have a C dependency in your dep tree, you're gonna have a bad time.

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