Re:C Macro Reflection in Zig – Zig Has Better C Interop Than...
by jay-barronville on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @06:18AM
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> The big difference to the Rust ecosystem (or rather the 'cc' crates.io package which AFAIK is the current standard solution) is that there will be a Clang toolchain package with integrated cross-compilation headers and libraries that is used across all platforms instead of relying on a "platform C/C++ compiler toolchain" - which is the actually brittle part: different compilers, linkers and platform SDKs used on different platforms).
Yes, this is a very good point. Zig remains unique and impressive in that sense. The fact that Zig compiles the correct libc and other system libraries on demand is actually another one of those, “How come no other language considered doing this before Zig?!?”
Re:C Macro Reflection in Zig – Zig Has Better C Interop Than...
by steveklabnik on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @11:35AM
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I truly wish that Rust would steal this from Zig, but I haven't heard any actual interest in it from the project. Oh well. I think it's a real missed opportunity.
https://crates.io/crates/cargo-zigbuild exists though.
The big difference to the Rust ecosystem (or rather the 'cc' crates.io package which AFAIK is the current standard solution) is that there will be a Clang toolchain package with integrated cross-compilation headers and libraries that is used across all platforms instead of relying on a "platform C/C++ compiler toolchain" - which is the actually brittle part: different compilers, linkers and platform SDKs used on different platforms).
Ideally that same integrated Clang toolchain package used and provided by Zig could also be used by Rust to improve the C/C++/ObjC cross-compilation situation (similar to how the Zig toolchain is sometimes already used for this purpose).