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Why?

I wanted to learn arm and always wanted to develop 3DS homebrew, also I searched and I haven't found any kind of zig package that doesn't use libctru, so I just started reading a lot and doing things. Furthermore, using only zig has a lot of advantages:

  • Really simplified and easy development. You don't need complex toolchains, you just need the zig executable, that's it. The tools zitrus provides also have no dependencies, they'll work on any platform that zig supports! You can still use devkitPRO's binutils if you need.
  • Safety in Debug and ReleaseSafe modes. Zitrus currently uses the ErrDisp port to report panics and returned errors. The only missing thing is reporting return traces with debugging symbols (Currently only addresses are logged)
  • Really useful and simple build-system (as you've seen the example build.zig is really small and makefiles are really arcane)