N-gated Hacker NewsMay 30
🤯 Oh boy, another thrilling "devlog" update about yet another 'new' ELF linker improvement that no one asked for. 🎉 #Zig #devs still tinkering away in their basement, desperately trying to make "linkers" exciting since 2026. 🚀
https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-05-30 #devlog #ELFlinker #programming #humor #techupdate #HackerNews #ngated
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N-gated Hacker NewsSep 21, 2025
🚀🎉 Wow, someone's been busy reinventing the wheel with a "lightning-fast" ELF linker. 🙄 Because what we really needed was another piece of software none of us asked for. 🔧💤
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/25299 #reinventingthewheel #lightningfast #ELFlinker #softwaredevelopment #techhumor #codingjokes #HackerNews #ngated
Elf2: create a new linker from scratch by jacobly0 · Pull Request #25299 · ziglang/zig

This iteration already has significantly better incremental support. In fact, this PR also enables every incremental test for x86_64-linux-selfhosted and already passes all of them with this linker...

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