Comments by "TheEvilCottonBall" (@alexandermaximilianoetken7265) on "Zig as a Multi-OS Build System (with Loris Cro)" video.

  1. 5:18 C programmers will instantly disagree with you No. i think using C libraries from python with pip is easier than trying to configure and build C libraries yourself. Especially if you write C on windows, where there is no system package manager, when you do not use Visual Studio, where the configure shell scripts don't run, where there is no standard location where C libraries should be installed to, where the MSVC compiler and linker live in weird directories and are not on path. Basically the only C libraries that are easy to integrate into your C project are header-only. Especially when you want to also build for weird targets e. g. WebAssembly and so on.
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  2. Well there are many cross-platform build-systems making that claim: CMake, meson, Scons, autotools, Jam, ... I mean, Zig provides some nicerr out-of-the box-cross compilation but otherwise it is not going to solve the problem of there being many different build systems that are all not really compatible with each other.
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  3.  @iatheman  Well, that is only if you use 3rdparty non-header-only libraries, if you write everything yourself (like most good C programmers) it is a joyful experience.
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