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Re:Zig Devlog: Self-Hosted x86 Back End Is Now Default in De... by candrewlee on Monday June 09, 2025 @02:30AM (#44221899)
This is awesome for Zig, I think this direction is gonna be a primary differentiator when comparing to Rust.

And hey, I wrote a lot of the rendering code for that perf analyzer. Always fun to see your work show up on the internet.

https://github.com/andrewrk/poop

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Re:Zig Devlog: Self-Hosted x86 Back End Is Now Default in De... by ctz on Monday June 09, 2025 @05:39AM (#44222763)
> This is awesome for Zig, I think this direction is gonna be a primary differentiator when comparing to Rust.

FWIW there is a similar effort for Rust using cranelift: <https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_cranelift>

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