For anyone not familiar: You can bundle arbitrary software as Python wheels. Can be convenient in cases like this!

I wish we had that for Nim too!

reinventing nix but worse.

Not even close, that's still imperative package management

For this sort of stuff I find micromamba / pixi a better way of managing packages, as oppposed to the pip / uv family of tools

Pixi, Conan, or Nix— all better choices than abusing the Python ecosystem to ship arbitrary executables.

It could easily be the case that the zig compiler is useful in some mixed-language project and this is not actually "abuse".

That's really cool actually. Now that AI is a little more commonly available for developer tooling I feel like its easier than ever to learn any programming language since you can braindrain the model.

The standard models are pretty bad a zig right now since the language is so new and changes so fast. The entire language spec is available in one html file though so you can have a little better success feeding that for context.

> The entire language spec is available in one html file though so you can have a little better success feeding that for context.

This is what I've started doing for every library I use. I go to their Github, download their docs, and drop the whole thing into my project. Then whenever the AI gets confused, I say "consult docs/somelib/"