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by mydriasis 596 days ago
Wow, neat! The wildest part to me is

> And it’s backwards-compatible with C and all of its libraries!

I can't wait to give it a shot! This looks like a riot.

1 comments

Have you heard of Zig?
It requires a different compiler. This is just a collection of C preprocessor macros
The Zig toolchain can compile both Zig and C.
Yes, but the Zig toolchain is not $YOUR_EXISTING_C_COMPILER_YOU_ALREADY_KNOW_AND_USE
It is, if you use clang.
I hadn't yet, but it does look nice. I especially like that you can just say "defer deinit", that's really nice.