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Each Zig source file has a corresponding ZIR representation. You can use `zig ast-check -t example.zig` to see a textual representation of the ZIR for any Zig source file.
See `src/Zir.zig`.
See `src/Zir.zig`.
### stage1
[These files](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/tree/master/stage1). There used to be a C++ implementation of Zig that was referred to as "stage1" but it was replaced by these files. They are used to [build Zig from a WebAssembly kernel](https://ziglang.org/news/goodbye-cpp/).
### stage2
[These files](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/tree/master/src). This is an implementation of Zig written in Zig.
### stage3
stage2 compiled with itself produces stage3. Compiling again with stage3 produces stage3 (input and output are the same).