The recent story about them switching to self hosting makes me feel like they are a particularly efficient project that will not waste donation income.
It sounds like something that could support a full time developer for some years.
I hope at some point it can be added to standard linux distributions like debians or red hats through their official yum/apt packages.
So far there is no red hat distro, and there's integration with ubuntu's snapcraft for some reason.
I realize there's dozens of distributions to support, but these are the two most foundational to my understanding, and it just speaks to the maturity and lack of system usage that the compiler is not released/vetted by OS distros.
The language+compiler are on 0.x so packaging it in long term support distros can be more problematic than helpful at this point (source that compiled a year ago is likely broken now and vice versa). Once it has reached 1.x then it won't be much to get it prepackaged everywhere.
Until that point it doesn't really make sense to pull it from the repos of distros that are packaging it right now anyways. E.g. it's packaged on Fedora but you most likely don't actually want to rely on that package for the moment.
The recent story about them switching to self hosting makes me feel like they are a particularly efficient project that will not waste donation income.
[dupe] / merge later discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712239
It sounds like something that could support a full time developer for some years.
I hope at some point it can be added to standard linux distributions like debians or red hats through their official yum/apt packages.
So far there is no red hat distro, and there's integration with ubuntu's snapcraft for some reason.
I realize there's dozens of distributions to support, but these are the two most foundational to my understanding, and it just speaks to the maturity and lack of system usage that the compiler is not released/vetted by OS distros.
The language+compiler are on 0.x so packaging it in long term support distros can be more problematic than helpful at this point (source that compiled a year ago is likely broken now and vice versa). Once it has reached 1.x then it won't be much to get it prepackaged everywhere.
Until that point it doesn't really make sense to pull it from the repos of distros that are packaging it right now anyways. E.g. it's packaged on Fedora but you most likely don't actually want to rely on that package for the moment.
That would be a good reason. The thing is that it is present in many distributions.
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Install-Zig-from-a-Packa...
Perhaps the foundational distros are stricter.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712239
Badass. Love to see things like this
Nice to see!