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by gmcabrita 2173 days ago
> The Zig language accepts hard tabs and carriage returns. The self-hosted compiler implements the Zig language correctly; accepting hard tabs and carriage returns. However, the self-hosted compiler is not yet complete, and what people are using in reality is the stage1 compiler, which does not accept hard tabs.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/FAQ#why-does-zig-force-m...

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That seems to imply that zig is only right now being used to make the self hosted compiler.