[jeremycw]

I think you need to be a bit more humble on a topic that's clearly going over your head.

Imagine a scenario where you are testing out a brand new RISC-V development board. The vendor has only provided a C compiler for this board as is often the case. You want to be able to use the zig language to write programs for your new development board but no zig compiler exists for this board yet. That means you need to compile the zig compiler from source. The latest version of the zig compiler is written in zig. Again you don't have a zig compiler so how will you compile the zig compiler from source? You need a way to go from C compiler to Zig compiler. That's what this is describing. It does not make sense to maintain two completely separate versions of the compiler. The "real" one written in Zig and the "bootstrap" one for compiling from C. So the zig source is compiled into WASM and stored in the repo. On a system with only a C compiler this WASM can be ran instead of a native zig binary. The WASM version can then be used to compile an actual native zig binary.