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The name “Zig” was reportedly chosen through a process involving a [[Python (programming language)|Python]] script that randomly combined letters, starting with the letter “Z” and followed by a vowel or “Y”, in order to generate four-letter words. Despite the intended length, “Zig”, a three-letter word, was ultimately selected from the various combinations produced by the script.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://gist.github.com/andrewrk/73742bf4b8ed795c85ce |title=origin of the zig programming language name. by @andrewrk |author=andrewrk |date=2024-03-13 |access-date=2024-03-13}}</ref>
The previous [[Bootstrapping (compilers)|bootstrapping]] compiler, written in Zig and C++ using [[LLVM]] as a back-end,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2019/05/13/a-reply-to-the-road-to-zig/|title=A Reply to _The Road to Zig 1.0_|date=2019-05-13|website=www.gingerbill.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2020-02-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=ziglang/zig|date=2020-02-11|url=https://github.com/ziglang/zig|website=GitHub|publisher=Zig Programming Language|access-date=2020-02-11}}</ref> supporting many of its native targets,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ziglang.org/#Tier-System|title=The Zig Programming Language|website=Ziglang.org|access-date=2020-02-11}}</ref> was removed in version 0.11. Newer versions of Zig use a prebuilt [[WebAssembly]] version of Zig to bootstrap itself.
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