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Not quite, it can translate C into zig using the `translate-c` command that it comes with. But it compiles directly into machine code

There is a C backend, so you can also compile Zig into C if you want.

yea but, that's extremely edge case, or at least I have not yet encountered a need for that personally.

While Zig prevents certain kinds of memory safety issues that C does not, it still suffers from memory-safety issues not found in safe Rust.

Zig can compile into C, but it's not portable C