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Maybe this: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/335#issuecomment-10138...

comment by strager · 2022-09-08 · in Zig, the Small Language

Yeah I miss interfaces/traits as well, see https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1268 related open issue.

comment by bouiaw · 2022-09-07 · in Zig, the Small Language

…even more trivial things like public/private and var/const before it will even compile your code. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/335 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/224 Maybe I'm a bad developer, but my code is never perfect…

comment by TakeBlaster16 · 2022-09-07 · in Zig, the Small Language

…comment, but when I consider the code I have left in me, I'd like it to look as nice as possible. 0 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1097

comment by ibiza · 2022-08-28 · in I like Odin

…and both Nim and Zig interface with libc. Zig does not depend on libc on Linux, for example: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/os/linux.... You can choose to link libc though.

comment by generichuman · 2022-08-26 · in Hooking Go from Rust

…depending on the differences between the stage1 and stage2 backend, respectively. Related: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/12183

comment by AndyKelley · 2022-08-20 · in Zig is now self–hosted by default

…[2]: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Error-Return-Trace... [3]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/4a98385b0aa3808ab05a1ebf...

comment by AndyKelley · 2022-08-20 · in Zig is now self–hosted by default

…know about it until today, very impressive. Generic SoA in less than 500 lines of userland code... https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/multi_arr...

comment by sekao · 2022-08-20 · in Zig is now self–hosted by default

Originally it was meant to be https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/89#issuecomment-122118... , but somehow last aprt was stripped. But that doesn't matter, thank you so much! New URL is definitely better.

comment by BratishkaErik · 2022-08-20 · in Zig is now self–hosted by default

We changed the URL from https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/89 .

comment by dang · 2022-08-20 · in Zig is now self–hosted by default

Yep, https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/6378

comment by nyberg · 2022-08-20 · in Zig is now self–hosted by default

…upgrade immediately. See the full upgrade guide [3] for help deciding when and how to upgrade. [1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/tree/master/src/stage1 [2]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/tree/master/src [3]:…

comment by AndyKelley · 2022-08-20 · in Zig is now self–hosted by default

…and can instead use the stdlib that already exists to automagically get that functionality. [0]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/src/stage1/os.hpp [1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/a9c4dc84f487c4764c578743...

comment by _gabe_ · 2022-08-15 · in Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown

…the programming language Bun is written on, is currently having some Windows headaches of its own: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/12420 I wonder how much of Bun's immaturity is due to Zig's own immaturity.

comment by Hamcha · 2022-08-14 · in Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown

…macro assemblers". They derive their semantics from the semantics of the underlying assembly. Take https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/12251 as an example. Several people from the Rust and Haskell community slacked off on twitter about…

comment by j-pb · 2022-08-08 · in MiniRust

…bit pattern to directly generate the exponent. This is what is done in the Zig standard library: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/10428

comment by 10000truths · 2022-08-06 · in Original source of `(seed * 9301 and 49297) % 233280` random algorithm? (2014)

…to edit, but related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27089184 , immutable pointer aliasing, https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/4021 .

comment by nyanpasu64 · 2022-07-31 · in Carbon’s most exciting feature is its calling convention

There is an accepted (but as of yet unimplemented) proposal to fix just that: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/7257#issuecomment-1030...

comment by Aransentin · 2022-07-22 · in Some Thoughts on Zig

…devs are open to considering any alternative, rather they just hope we can learn to live with it. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/335 This is by far my biggest annoyance with Go, more so than writing if err != nil. I feel I write…

comment by sph · 2022-07-22 · in Some Thoughts on Zig

…are forced to declare loop index outside the loop body, despite many requests from the community. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/358#issuecomment-49100...

comment by markisus · 2022-07-22 · in Some Thoughts on Zig

…out of the bounds where that is possible. Here's a thread I'm at least a year out of date on https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1006 The general philosophy is to give the programmer tools to know what the consequence of a choice will be…

comment by Schroedingersat · 2022-07-22 · in Some Thoughts on Zig

Zig basically does plan to disallow recursion : https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1006#issuecomment-5346... More specifically, it'll force you to allocate memory for your recursive functions on the heap (and thus handle the possible…

comment by csande17 · 2022-07-22 · in Some Thoughts on Zig

…build the zig compiler and patch it. See this post by ryuukk in the corresponding issue on github: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/335#issuecomment-10138... and also https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/335#issuecomment-10184... I…

comment by chienandalou · 2022-07-05 · in Zig is becoming more production-worthy

They don't (at least the GPA's defaulting backing allocator is the page_allocator, which doesn't). https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/heap.zig

comment by dundarious · 2022-06-23 · in How safe is Zig?

…self-hosted compiler recently, so they're behind on actually implementing accepted proposals. [0] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/7769

comment by alphazino · 2022-06-23 · in How safe is Zig?

This. I believe it is in the works, but postponed to finish up self-hosted. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2301

comment by throwawaymaths · 2022-06-23 · in How safe is Zig?

…read. Even a primitive editor with primitive highlighting can make the syntax painless. Reasoning: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/162

comment by vkazanov · 2022-06-23 · in Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Merged for Linux 5.20

I was sad to find out "Zig supports only the last three macOS versions". No ncdu2 for me :( https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/10232#issue-1064864004

comment by password4321 · 2022-06-19 · in Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

…definition is a compile-time expression that creates the function. Edit: here’s that Zig rfc: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1717#

comment by kbd · 2022-06-14 · in Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)

…containers are dependent on making a comptime allocator available. There's a ticket for that: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1291 > * a generic memoization utility in the standard library for caching. If I want my function to handle…

comment by formerly_proven · 2022-05-27 · in How I Built Zig-SQLite

…source code is very easy in good part thanks to the reasons you already mentioned in your post. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/How-to-read-the-standard... You might also be interested in reading about the project to see if you like…

comment by kristoff_it · 2022-05-23 · in How Uber Uses Zig

…to fix some issues, it is likely fair. > Contract terms were roughly as follows: > * Uber reports issues to github.com/ziglang/zig and pings Loris. > * Loris assigns it to someone in ZSF. > * Hack hack hack hack hack. > * When done, Loris…

comment by johanj · 2022-05-23 · in How Uber Uses Zig

…right now. I attempted to use zig cc as the cross compiler for sqlite3 the other day. Ran into https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/5882 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/9485 an almost two-year-old issue. Cross compiling C sucks.

comment by oefrha · 2022-05-13 · in SQLite in Go, with and Without Cgo

Sort of random to see this pop-up out of nowhere. Very interesting language. This blew my mind: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/multi_arr...

comment by dilap · 2022-05-12 · in Zig Programming Language

…language features and then make sure those features did the right thing. You can find them here: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/tree/master/test/behavior > Is that a list of compilation targets? Mostly. Pedantically, it's a list of code…

comment by Spex_guy · 2022-04-16 · in Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself

…runtime safety checks If you're looking forward to giving it a spin, subscribe to [this issue]( https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/89 ) to be notified when it is landed in master branch. Edit: The talk recording about upcoming compiler…

comment by AndyKelley · 2022-04-16 · in Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself

For reference: Tracking issue for overall progress on the self-hosted compiler: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/89 Zig's New Relationship with LLVM: https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-relationship-llvm/

comment by Shoop · 2022-04-16 · in Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself

…[2]. So in answer to your question, the PoC adds about 150 lines to an 186,865 line codebase. [1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/compare/hcs [2]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/compare/hcs-macos

comment by AndyKelley · 2022-03-18 · in Hot-code reloading on macOS/arm64 with Zig

…follow its development a bit. Zig has or may add foreach-like loops over one or more collections: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/7257#issuecomment-1030...

comment by nyanpasu64 · 2022-03-11 · in Toward a better list iterator for the Linux kernel

…a definitive answer to this, but this merged PR looks like it might implement support for this: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/4786

comment by nicoburns · 2022-02-28 · in Using Zig as cross-platform C toolchain

…(deduplicated) libc headers for pretty much every platform, including macOS and glibc/musl. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/tree/master/lib/libc/include * Provides a libc implementation (libSystem for macOS, musl and glibc, mingw for…

comment by slimsag · 2022-02-28 · in Using Zig as cross-platform C toolchain

Just to tag onto this comment, for anybody interested the repo is: https://github.com/ziglang/zig The code in the lib/std directory is very readable, and I’d strongly encourage checking it out for anybody who wants to learn Zig or know…

comment by messe · 2022-02-26 · in Zig build system internals

They seem to have their own linker: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/8755 . > Now that there is significant work put into Mach-O linking thanks to @kubkon, Zig is more than just a linker driver for LLD. It is now a linker that…

comment by dgellow · 2022-02-16 · in Cargo-zigbuild: Compile Cargo project with Zig as linker

…CPython-level performance once the self-hosted compiler is finished, so things might become better. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/4055

comment by cyber_kinetist · 2022-02-13 · in Compile-Time Sort in D

…* D ImportC is shipped, while Aro as a C frontend in Zig is an [unfinished branch]( https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/10795 ) It's been really exciting watching Vexu and ehaas (and other contributors) working on Aro. Looks like there's…

comment by AndyKelley · 2022-02-05 · in Aro: A C compiler written in Zig

…gap would mean that seamless C compilation could still be done, without LLVM being involved. [1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/10795 [2] https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-relationship-llvm/

comment by tiehuis · 2022-02-05 · in Aro: A C compiler written in Zig

…I say that as someone who spend a significant amount of time writing JavaScript for a living. [2] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2301 [3] I say “better” because it would be strongly linked with the actual semantics of the languages…

comment by littlestymaar · 2022-01-27 · in Being fair about memory safety and performance

…- 1. Generators that can allocate prevent comptime-overapproximation of potential stack usage ( https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/157#issuecomment-76395... ) or make analysis inside the compiler significant harder. - 2. There is no…

comment by matu3ba · 2022-01-25 · in In defense of complicated programming languages

…a 3-year-old reddit comments section really a better source for this than the Zig standard library? https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/unicode.z...

comment by anonymoushn · 2022-01-24 · in The case for a modern language

…not depriving users of control when they know better than the type checker/lifetime analysis. [1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/782 [2]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2301

comment by nyberg · 2022-01-17 · in Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code