# What prevents you from using Zig?

**URL:** <https://ziggit.dev/t/what-prevents-you-from-using-zig/9796>\
**Category:** Brainstorming\
**Created:** [April 25, 2025, 5:15am UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/what-prevents-you-from-using-zig/9796 "2025-04-25T05:15:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 7

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![breadtom](https://ziggit.dev/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@breadtom](https://ziggit.dev/u/breadtom)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://ziggit.dev/t/what-prevents-you-from-using-zig/9796/7 "2025-04-25T14:27:25Z")

</div>

Full Zig needs [C++ to compile zig](https://ziggit.dev/t/building-self-hosted-from-the-original-c-implementation/6607), LLVM and [compile itself 45+ times to get to current version](https://jakstys.lt/2024/zig-reproduced-without-binaries/) from a trusting bootstraping perspective. If a completed second implementation exists that can bootstrap Zig without any blobs from [live bootstrap](https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap), I would use Zig much more.

---

_[View the full topic](https://ziggit.dev/t/what-prevents-you-from-using-zig/9796)._