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Is Zig compatible with C? No? End of the story.

Edit: I know that you can include a C header in Zig, and cross-compilation is possible and made easy. But you can't continue develop on current C projects if you switch to Zig. I guess that you have to change the Makefiles too.

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But... Zig is compatible with C. It goes to some lengths to make sure of it.

I guess @yyhhsj0521 means source compatible. Which was my thought too.

I mean, as source compatible as possible; which may not be much.

Unfortunately, that tends to demand the observation that C is really compatible with C.

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