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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: 0s | 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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pacaro ◴[01 Jun 23 15:09 UTC] No.36152162[source]▶
I understand this, but haven't found this to be an issue personally. I just download the pre built tarball, expand it, make sure that /opt/zig-latest symlinks to the right folder, and setup path

That's more work than apt-get install for sure, but not so much more

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1. hellcow ◴[01 Jun 23 17:20 UTC] No.36154333[source]▶
You can also use something like zigup to make fetching the latest master/managing multiple versions easier.