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> No pre-existing binaries are required.

Except for of course a c compiler.



Which is something mescc and friends solve. Zig doesn't need to solve the full bootstrap from nothing chain, just the entry.


Currently, alternatively they could cross-compile.


Which is…self-hosted.


need a compiler to compile it, though.




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