[shirleyquirk]

zig's IR is llvm, while Nim's IR is C/C++/javascript. C supports more platforms than llvm.

zig: no macros plz

nim: macros are amazing

[beagle3]

FWIW, there’s nlvm which is a fork of Nim that emits LLVM IR directly.

[jeltz]

Zig has a work in progress C backend so it does not only generated llvm IR. Also to ve more specific Zig is macros are awesome but best implemented as C++'s comptime.