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by goranmoomin 28 days ago
So this is the change that forced Zig to remove @cImport (and into the build system), right?

I know that it’s purely a UX concern, and that the changes (to decouple the build system and the compiler) are pretty critical for the maintainers, but it’s still a bit sad that development sanity comes first than the UX. (It’s the right call, just that it’s sad.) @cImport was a big killing feature imho to the language…
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csande17 27 days ago
Not really? This change is about the code for downloading and extracting third-party packages. The @cImport change was part of an effort to (eventually) make Zig's dependency on LLVM/libclang optional, so that it could (eventually) be put into a third-party package, but it doesn't seem directly related.
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beepbooptheory 27 days ago
Yes. @cImport was removed last major version (0.16.0) so I dont think it has much to do with what tfa is talking about.
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