Then I was talking uninformed, sorry. Thanks for the link.
dimitarvp
rbino
Ash Core Team
I still haven’t explored the cross-compilation side unlocked by the Zig build system, it might be a good occasion to finally try Nerves (which I haven’t had the chance to use in a project yet).
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rbino
Ash Core Team
It’s nice to see we had the same idea 
build_dot_zig was not very discoverable up until now because even though I’ve been working on it since March, it was mainly meant to serve my own use case, and now I finally decided to polish it a little bit and share it with a wider audience.
About the documentation of the Zig build system, I agree it’s a little sparse. This guide that was published recently can help a little, and I also don’t mind digging into the code since I find Zig stdlib code very readable.
What I don’t agree with is the claim that it can’t be used in serious projects.
Here’s some projects which I would consider serious ported to the Zig build system:
I think we can agree that if your NIF gets more complex than CPython your problem is not going to be how you build it 
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trnasistor
jackalcooper
Glad to see the release of build_dot_zig!
Recently I found that you can run a rustler build without installing Erlang/Elixir, which is very handy when doing cross-platform build. Does build_dot_zig also support that or possible to make this a goal? 
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rbino
Ash Core Team
Not sure if it could run inside BEAM, it interacts in a very direct way with low-level APIs on the operating systems (it’s even capable of running on a bare NVMe, without a filesystem)
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rbino
Ash Core Team
Not sure I understand the usecase, can you detail a little more what you’re able to achieve with Rustler? Are you talking about precompiled NIFs?
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