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  1. …of a function then finding it is in a sea of text is very difficult and not fun. Zig ArrayList: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/array_lis... C++ Vector: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector Rust Vec:…
    comment by forrestthewoods · 2022-01-17 · in Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code
  2. …is also the reason why I gave up on it for now. But I'm sure it will improve over time. [1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/79628d48a4429818bddef2e8...
    comment by zppln · 2022-01-17 · in Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code
  3. …The ecosystem for zig is insignificant now and a stable release would help the language. [1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/234 [2] https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/andrew-kelley/
    comment by megumax · 2022-01-17 · in Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code
  4. …a good example being > Bit-shifting is a monumental pain in the ass. Yes, it indeed is. See: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/7605 Ok, so, here's my advice to forrestthewoods if you're ever going to try Zig again: [1] Interact more…
    comment by kristoff_it · 2022-01-17 · in Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code
  5. …in the meantime. It also links to a page that explains how the standard library is structured: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/How-to-read-the-standard...
    comment by kristoff_it · 2022-01-17 · in Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code
  6. …now. Zig has a few peculiarities, it's not stable yet, you kind of have to follow it's development. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/tree/master/lib/std
    comment by Comevius · 2022-01-17 · in Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code
  7. The Zig programming language approach to communications is a great example of what you advocate: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Community
    comment by williamstein · 2021-12-28 · in Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects
  8. Correction: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/10018
    comment by guidorice · 2021-12-28 · in A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021)
  9. There is an open issue for something like `cargo test` https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/10018
    comment by arch_rust · 2021-12-27 · in A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021)
  10. …is a report from someone who tried using valgrind [2]. Yes, it doesn’t sound all that special. [1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/valgrind.... [2] https://dev.to/stein/some-notes-on-using-valgrind-with-zig-3...
    comment by skybrian · 2021-12-27 · in A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021)
  11. …they haven't really settled on a desirable solution yet, but it's something they're hoping to add. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/782 I work in games with C++ and we already do so much manual management and initialization+teardown…
    comment by Bekwnn · 2021-12-27 · in A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021)
  12. …at the top that links you to a wiki page that explains how the standard library is structured. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/How-to-read-the-standard...
    comment by kristoff_it · 2021-12-27 · in A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021)
  13. …any real sense. I will re-emphasize that I've not used it, so I cannot speak for its quality. [1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/unicode.z...
    comment by llimllib · 2021-12-27 · in A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021)
  14. …common ones I used. Was there something in particular you were looking for and didn't find? [1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/mem.zig#L... [2]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/mem.zig#L... [3]:…
    comment by llimllib · 2021-12-27 · in A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021)
  15. …const x = blah;, so why are functions not const bar = function() {};? This may or may not happen: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/8383 > Fixing the standard library documentation would be my biggest priority if I worked on Zig,…
    comment by dnautics · 2021-12-27 · in A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021)
  16. …functions not const bar = function() {};? Good question, there's an accepted proposal to fix this: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1717 > The builtin compiler macros (that start with @) are a bit confusing. Some of them have a…
    comment by AnIdiotOnTheNet · 2021-12-27 · in A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021)
  17. …I'd recommend sticking to the current FAQ from 2021 which has a section dedicated to this question: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/FAQ#why-does-zig-force-m... as this is the fully current and authoritative answer on the status of tab…
    comment by zamadatix · 2021-12-21 · in Zig 0.9.0
  18. …compiler as operations on Vector types aren't explicitly tied to particular CPU instructions. 1: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/903#issuecomment-45950... 2: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Vectors 3:…
    comment by bnprks · 2021-12-21 · in Zig 0.9.0
  19. Please see https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/544#issuecomment-36396... and https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/663 . In particular, `For every codepoint of zig source code, it is an error for the codepoint to be one of U+0000-U+0009,…
    comment by Vendan · 2021-12-21 · in Zig 0.9.0
  20. …point. It would not be anything quite like the Rust borrow checker but I think would be a big help. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/782
    comment by jeremyjh · 2021-12-21 · in Zig 0.9.0
  21. Yes: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/milestones
    comment by squeek502 · 2021-12-21 · in Zig 0.9.0
  22. See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/FAQ#why-does-zig-force-m... In a nutshell, what you're currently using is the stage 1 compiler, aka the bootstrapping compiler to compile the official zig compiler going forward. zig fmt is…
    comment by lhorie · 2021-12-21 · in Zig 0.9.0
  23. …between things being marked unused and actually being used, and improving tooling integration. [1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/10245
    comment by AndyKelley · 2021-12-20 · in Zig 0.9.0
  24. …me from using Zig. I look forward to 1.0, which will hopefully have proper strings. [0] [0]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/234
    comment by vladharbuz · 2021-12-20 · in Zig 0.9.0
  25. I have no fear of abysses: https://github.com/ziglang/glibc-abi-tool/ https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/tools/gen_stubs.z... bring it on
    comment by AndyKelley · 2021-12-19 · in Zig: Drop MinGW-w64
  26. …one argument to the right. The same pointer must be returned by the callee in RAX. Isn't this what https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/9998#issuecomment-9970... claims to be undocumented?
    comment by anonymfus · 2021-12-19 · in Zig: Drop MinGW-w64
  27. …the the closest thing to RAII is this proposal, but there is no guarantee that it will be accepted. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/782
    comment by kristoff_it · 2021-12-15 · in Allocgate: Restructuring how allocators work in Zig
  28. Some context: In master branch of Zig right now (before https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/10330 is merged), status quo: $ cat ../lib/libc/glibc/*.txt | wc -c 205219 $ cat ../lib/libc/glibc/*.txt | xz | wc -c 22976 Zig supports targeting…
    comment by AndyKelley · 2021-12-13 · in Show HN: A 166 KB file for cross compiling glibc for any version, any target
  29. No it doesn't. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/782
    comment by lenkite · 2021-12-10 · in Sayonara, C++, and Hello to Rust
  30. They seem to be almost ready to make a new 0.9.0 release, by the way: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/milestone/11
    comment by xvilka · 2021-12-06 · in Zig Performance Tracking Dashboard
  31. …in Zig, in case you want a still-maintained, up-to-date file. It's just called "windows_sdk.cpp". https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/src/windows_sdk.c...
    comment by AndyKelley · 2021-11-24 · in Microsoft_craziness.h (2018)
  32. …and such can still happen because of programmer error in well-formed zig programs. see also: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2301
    comment by nice_byte · 2021-11-22 · in Ask HN: Alternatives to Rust Programming Language
  33. Zig is working on hot reloading, needs compiler and linker level support. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/68 That issue has some links to people doing it in C/C++.
    comment by ximeng · 2021-11-11 · in Paradox of the perfect code editor
  34. …have created for the very purpose of ensuring memory safety with unrestricted aliasing.) [1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/6396
    comment by pcwalton · 2021-11-05 · in What memory model should Rust use?
  35. ? https://github.com/ziglang/zig
    comment by adenozine · 2021-11-03 · in Zig monthly, October 2021: Games, gamedev, Elixir, tools and more
  36. …need newer systems programming languages that don't have an answer for use-after-free in safe code. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2301 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1966 Naturally I have taken the time, and did not come out…
    comment by pjmlp · 2021-10-19 · in Zig gamedev project – left my job to build games in Zig lang
  37. Andrew plans to audit the zig stdlib before the 1.0 release to fix those issues: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1629
    comment by 10000truths · 2021-10-18 · in Zig gamedev project – left my job to build games in Zig lang
  38. …yet, at least in my experience from trying it earlier this year. I ran into a compiler crash: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/7865 . I attempted to fix the compiler crash myself ( https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/8372 ), and I…
    comment by haberman · 2021-10-18 · in Zig gamedev project – left my job to build games in Zig lang
  39. …with raylib for my next project. The show stopper was that C ABI compatibility is not yet complete: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1481 I could have probably worked around it but decided to go the C and Lua for scripting route for…
    comment by cardanome · 2021-10-17 · in Zig gamedev project – left my job to build games in Zig lang
  40. …more questions you can pop into irc or the discord, they'll have better resources at the ready. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Community
    comment by lkey · 2021-10-07 · in Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (2019)
  41. …I last checked; ha. Although, it's not clear to me whether it's intended for end-user use yet. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/releases/tag/0.8.0
    comment by dleslie · 2021-10-07 · in We moved from Pony to Rust
  42. Zig's stage2 compiler has a C backend https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/src/codegen/c.zig
    comment by jedisct1 · 2021-10-07 · in We moved from Pony to Rust
  43. At the end of the post is a link to a Github issue to "support compiling and linking c++ code": https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/4786 It was closed in March of 2020.
    comment by SloopJon · 2021-10-06 · in LLVM 13.0
  44. Zig appears to have a proposed solution to this similar to your option 1, move recursion to the heap. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1639 They're also looking at static analysis of the maximum stack depth which might help in some…
    comment by ximeng · 2021-09-28 · in Stack size invisibility in C and the effects on "portability"
  45. To answer myself. Zig doesn't really do separate compilation: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/233
    comment by gpderetta · 2021-09-27 · in What color is your function? (2015)
  46. …something like: if (!std.event.loop.instance) @compileError("X function only supports async"); [1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1778
    comment by aeldidi · 2021-09-27 · in What color is your function? (2015)
  47. …use case that computed goto tries to solve is addressed with labeled continue on a switch [1] [1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/8220
    comment by AndyKelley · 2021-09-21 · in A function decorator that rewrites the bytecode to enable goto in Python
  48. …like 10 years later. Zig moved in the opposite direction. It had one at first, and then removed it: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/630
    comment by mumblemumble · 2021-09-21 · in A function decorator that rewrites the bytecode to enable goto in Python
  49. …times, and includes interesting examples from the stdlib where resources were not closed properly: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/782
    comment by llimllib · 2021-09-10 · in Clearing up Myths about Ada
  50. There’s this helpful guide: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md Though I’m interested in hearing from the creator itself as well.
    comment by pryelluw · 2021-09-09 · in Maintain It with Zig