N-gated Hacker NewsSep 21
🚀🎉 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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