# std.Target: Remove functions that just wrap component functions\. · gitcafe/zig

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Requested revision: 481b7bf3f095488a89e20d88ada092529bc6e6f8

Requested commit: 481b7bf3f095488a89e20d88ada092529bc6e6f8

Commit: 481b7bf3f095488a89e20d88ada092529bc6e6f8

Tree: 9e4dde982be4327fb18d156d7b3540c8d03ce658

Author: Alex Rønne Petersen

Committer: Alex Rønne Petersen

## Message

```
std.Target: Remove functions that just wrap component functions.

Functions like isMinGW() and isGnuLibC() have a good reason to exist: They look
at multiple components of the target. But functions like isWasm(), isDarwin(),
isGnu(), etc only exist to save 4-8 characters. I don't think this is a good
enough reason to keep them, especially given that:

* It's not immediately obvious to a reader whether target.isDarwin() means the
  same thing as target.os.tag.isDarwin() precisely because isMinGW() and similar
  functions *do* look at multiple components.
* It's not clear where we would draw the line. The logical conclusion before
  this commit would be to also wrap Arch.isX86(), Os.Tag.isSolarish(),
  Abi.isOpenHarmony(), etc... this obviously quickly gets out of hand.
* It's nice to just have a single correct way of doing something.

```

## Parents

- [e62352611faf3056b989cc1edaa4aedaa74f326e](https://git.cafe/gitcafe/zig/commit/e62352611faf3056b989cc1edaa4aedaa74f326e?format=markdown)

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