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by bsaul 1118 days ago
looks like the project's now abandonned :

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/projects/2
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hsn915 1118 days ago
This comment suggests otherwise:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/89#issuecomment-122118...

Although I'm not sure the "self hosted compiler" is the same as "llvm free backend".

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stefncb 1118 days ago
It's not. The self-hosted compiler still uses llvm, and it's still slow because of it.
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TUSF 1118 days ago
"self-hosted compiler" in this case means moving all the non-LLVM code (which was previously in C++) to Zig itself.
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