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ChickeNES · 2026-10-27T23:25:49.000Z

You’re kidding right? That’s not what the support matrix on the Zig site shows. Plenty of CPU archs in Tier 3/4. No support for Alpha, HPPA, M68K, Sparc, or SuperH.

nektro · 2026-10-27T23:33:30.000Z

"portable" and "has ports" mean two different things. there might be targets Zig doesn't have great support for yet but what I meant is that bootstrapping a target to Zig is a simpler endeavor than it is for C

j16sdiz · 2026-10-28T02:58:51.000Z

Is it? I think zig use llvm codegen. Once you got llvm for your architecture, you get 99% of modern language

audunw · 2026-10-28T16:32:29.000Z

LLVM codegen is optional, and LLVM is being turned into a runtime dependency.

Zig has its own compiler backend. With limited arch support of course. Only used in debug modes for now.

I think the most interesting part is they rely on WASM for bootstrapping so all you need to make to bootstrap Zig anywhere is a WASM interpreter (if I understand correctly).