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Zig is hard but worth it

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401 points signa11 | 1 comments | 01 Jun 23 10:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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ok123456 ◴[01 Jun 23 15:03 UTC] No.36152055[source]▶
One annoying thing I ran into when trying zig is they don't distribute debs any more for Debian distributions. They just tell you to use a snap. I don't have snap, and don't want it.

Compiling it requires the latest llvm toolchian (16), which is only realistically going to be available as a package if you're on a bleeding edge distribution.

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1. netule ◴[01 Jun 23 15:30 UTC] No.36152563[source]▶
Zig's in the process of getting added to the mainline Debian repositories: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=995670

Hopefully, this process will continue soon as the bug seems to be getting a bit stale.