translate-c is not required for compiling pure Zig code. However, the plan is to remove the "@cImport" built in. So if your project is importing a c header, in the future you'll add build step translating it from c to Zig, and then you import it into your Zig code as a module.
It's super exciting. c2nim is one of the things that makes using Nim in _super_ odd places (like professional embedded firmware development) feasible, and translate-c brings Zig that much closer to what I'd love from it! Embedded Zig is going to be rad, once we get there.
what is the reason for this change? zig less than newbie here. I've only just recently started reading the zig overview, although I have been reading hn posts about zig with interest for some time.
