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		dxxvi 6 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Zig so cool? There's at least 1 thing that Zig is better than Rust is that Zig compiler for Windows can be downloaded, unzipped then used without admin right. Rust needs msvc, which cannot be installed without admin right. It is said that Rust on Windows can use cygwin but I cannot make it work even with AI help.

newpavlov 4 hours ago | [–]

Have you tried the GNU toolchain? IIRC rustup provides the option to use it instead of the MSVC toolchain during the initial installation.

tremololo 5 hours ago | [–]

You should check out cargo-zigbuild which makes use of zig for cross compiling rust projects. https://github.com/rust-cross/cargo-zigbuild

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