Comment by fulafel
2 years ago
Surprising that the issue is full of comments from users who are currently using Zig to compile C++. Hopefully this won't be the deciding thing.
2 years ago
Surprising that the issue is full of comments from users who are currently using Zig to compile C++. Hopefully this won't be the deciding thing.
There's a ton of C++ libraries that won't be rewritten in C anytime soon, and even loss of ObjC support is very painful for anybody caring about the Mac platform.
The ability to build mixed C/C++/ObjC/Zig projects without having to deal with multiple compiler toolchains was indeed one of the killer features of Zig to me and the one thing that separated Zig from other "better C" attempts.
Hopefully the Zig project is at least thinking about bundling a Clang toolchain with the vanilla Zig distribution, and call Clang from 'zig cc'. To the user this wouldn't make a difference compared to the current feature set (apart from losing backend support for some CPU architectures), but still decouple Clang and LLVM from Zig.