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tsimionescu on March 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang

The fact that they compile to the same assembly instruction does not make them similar source code.

abainbridge on March 25, 2020 | [–]

The languages are similar enough that the Zig tool-chain can translate C source into Zig source. There's mostly a one-to-one correspondence.

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