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cargo-zigbuild
Rust2022–2025
rust-cross / cargo-zigbuild

cargo-zigbuild

Compile Cargo project with zig as linker

8Distinct people
8Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.7KGitHub stars
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What it is

Compile Cargo project with zig as linker

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-02-16 11:59:42 UTC to 2025-11-08 17:23:34 UTC.

01232022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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I'm not rooting for Zig [1] but I think there are some misses here, e.g.: > Cross-compilation looks like a standout feature in Zig, although C developers have been doing the same thing for decades. ... You can target an embedded ARM board or a RISC-V chip with one flag: Disagree: Zig's cross-compilation support is better than anything else. For one, installing a toolchain for a different OS/arch combo is not necessarily so easy with C. For another, with Zig you can target an arbitrary Linux glibc version with a commandline argument. Without Zig's toolchain, [2] the best I've seen is to run within a Docker container with that glibc version installed. [1] almost entirely because I think all new languages should have memory safety (via GC or borrow checking). [2] I see people linking Rust programs with Zig's toolchain for this reason: https:
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