May 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM, minung...@gmail.com mailto:minung...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello Guix, > > Today I successfully built guix-daemon using Zig build system [1]. This show > the possibility of rewriting part of (or entire) gux-daemon in Zig. Zig can > work as a C compiler. Although currently this function depends on clang and > LLVM, Zig has planed to remove these dependencies [2]. > > But why Zig? As for me, Zig shows a possibitily to get rid of current > toolchain. Even though C is not a bad language (I think C is good enough!), > nowadays GCC is written in C++ which is a monster. Zig has lots of > improvements comparing with C but it is still a elegant language. Zig can > easily call and be call by C/C++, which means I can gradually apply Zig in a > C/C++ project. > > The Zig build system is another thing that attracts me [3]. The script of > this build system is written in Zig itself! I don’t need to spend time to > learn a language only for a build system. I can use the standard library, > define and call functions easily because the script just a normal programming > langauge. > > Why not Guile? I don’t want to rewrite guix-daemon totally. I plan to reduce > the code size of libstore. I think it will also benefits guile-daemon [4]. > Zig, its build system and standard library is suitable for this task. > > How long do you expect it to take to complete your project? Unfortunately > I've had some health issues lately and it could be months before I get > started. Nonetheless I've made a great start [1]. > > [1] https://codeberg.org/congcongkuo/guix-daemon-zig/src/branch/main > [2] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16270 > [3] https://ziglang.org/learn/build-system/ > [4] https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/a-build-daemon-in-guile/ > > Regards, > Kuo This sounds super cool! I love hearing about Zig and the other C-alternative languages! Good luck! If only prescheme had more man-power. :(
