Same native UI, two stacks: Swift build is ~80MB Mac-only, Zig build is ~10MB cross-platform
jedisct1 · x · 2026-10-23
Developer @ddalcu showed two pixel-identical native builds of MLX-Serve, a local LLM client: one written in Swift at 80MB that only runs on Mac, and one written in Zig at 10MB that runs on Mac, Linux and Windows. Screenshots show both support image/video/audio generation, agents, tasks, and local models like DeepSeek. The comparison highlights Zig's cross-platform reach and much smaller binary size.
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