Looks like people behind Zig decided to drop support for macOS Catalina, OS released just 3 years ago. So it is not possible to compile Zig for it. It is ridiculous. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/13313#issuecomment-129...
Maybe once Zig is fully developed we'll focus our effort on more retrocompatibility.
If you want to help us get there faster, consider donating to the Zig software foundation, as we're looking to hire more developers to work full time on Zig (we're 4 full-time people right now).
So that is not an excuse to drop support for 10.15.
https://developer.apple.com/support/xcode/
While Zig is not even 10.15.
andrewrk commented Feb 17, 2023 •
macOS 10 is no longer supported by Apple, and therefore also no longer supported by Zig. You have to use one of the latest 3 versions or else your system is not being patched for security vulnerabilities, and likewise zig does not provide support for cross compiling to anything less than the latest 3 versions.
https://ziglang.org/download/0.10.0/release-notes.html#macOS
But for a pre-1.0 language in development the decision is completely justified IMHO. Catalina is quite ancient by macOS standards.
That is not what the parent said
https://ziglang.org/download/0.10.0/release-notes.html#Suppo...
I also had this issue with a non-updatable MBP, but linux support is good, and I am looking forward to trying Zig out with Risc-V when I can get my hands on some hardware that hopefully wont expire as fast.
iMac (Mid 2014 or later)
iMac Pro
MacBook (Early 2015 or later)
MacBook Air (Mid 2013 or later)
MacBook Pro (Late 2013 or later)
Mac Mini (Late 2014 or later)
Mac Pro (Late 2013 or later)
And by similarity of supporting last 3 macOS release, this will grow to hardware of ~2016 if they drop support of Big Sur next.