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C Macro Reflection in Zig


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Despite being under active development (and having some rough edges as a result), Zig is extremely powerful, and is already used by a few substantial projects such as Bun and TigerBeetle. One of Zig’s unique superpowers is that it bundles a C compiler toolchain – that is what enables it to transcend C FFI and seamlessly include declarations from C header files, among other capabilities. Availability of high-quality libraries and transition paths for existing code are both critical obstacles to language adoption that Zig has cleverly bypassed by electing to subsume C in the course of replacing it.

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