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It does look impressive! Does anyone know if Zig exposes some APIs to extract/manipulate/analyze the AST of the C program? It might be a nice alternative to LLVM, which I find a little overwhelming.

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zig cc uses LLVM under the hood.

right now - my understanding is once the self-hosted compiler is done, LLVM will be optional.

I think LLVM will still be required for release builds.

I believe the plan is to make LLVM optional for compiling Zig code, but features that work with C code will still require Clang to be compiled in.

Who knows, though. Someone might end up implementing a C compiler on top of the self-hosted Zig compiler's backend!

From what I understand, LLVM will still be used for release builds, while the self-holsted compiler will be used for quick feedback.

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