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  1. …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
  2. …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
  3. 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
  4. …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
  5. Yes: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/milestones
    comment by squeek502 · 2021-12-21 · in Zig 0.9.0
  6. 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
  7. …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
  8. …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
  9. 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
  10. …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
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    story by goranmoomin · 2021-12-19 · 34 comments
  12. …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
  13. 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
  14. No it doesn't. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/782
    comment by lenkite · 2021-12-10 · in Sayonara, C++, and Hello to Rust
  15. 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
  16. …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)
  17. …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
  18. 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
  19. …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?
  20. ? https://github.com/ziglang/zig
    comment by adenozine · 2021-11-03 · in Zig monthly, October 2021: Games, gamedev, Elixir, tools and more
  21. …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
  22. 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
  23. …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
  24. …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
  25. …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)
  26. …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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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"
  30. 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)
  31. …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)
  32. …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
  33. …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
  34. …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
  35. 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
  36. …but I think you could wrap it pretty easily in a struct of your own if you needed that. [0] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/unicode.z...
    comment by losvedir · 2021-09-08 · in Maintain It with Zig
  37. Probably related to the following: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/3180
    comment by sigzero · 2021-09-08 · in Maintain It with Zig
  38. …been using Zig for a month and I am still positively surprised so he must be onto something. [0]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/json.zig#...
    comment by skywal_l · 2021-09-08 · in Maintain It with Zig
  39. There's a discussion about this here: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2647
    comment by dralley · 2021-09-07 · in Looking into Odin and Zig
  40. “Adding everything” is definitely not a part of Zig’s philosophy. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/130#issuecomment-70601... > However, at this point the plan is to not add an additional dynamic dispatch language feature.
    comment by judofyr · 2021-08-28 · in Weird Languages
  41. …safe languages Zig is a nice improvement over C, but it is not safe. There is work in progress ( https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2301 ), but from what I can tell, key details are still to be decided, including the classes of errors…
    comment by ojeda · 2021-08-21 · in The Janet Programming Language
  42. …C/C++ easier we might see a Zig package manager making C/C++ packaging easier too. [0] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/943
    comment by skywal_l · 2021-08-19 · in C++20 Modules with GCC11
  43. …and Zig is very much opposed to both. Non-capturing anonymous functions expressions will be added ( https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1717 ), while a limited form of closure is being considered ( https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/69…
    comment by pron · 2021-08-10 · in Zig Pathtracer
  44. …similar to this earlier - there is actually a quite cool proposal for something like this here now: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/8973
    comment by slimsag · 2021-08-08 · in Bringing NetBSD to Zig's Continuous Integration
  45. They're discussing this in https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/910 (server) and https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2007 (client).
    comment by jks · 2021-08-07 · in Looking into Zig
  46. …the error set of the current function to not include the handled ones. Here are a couple examples: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/7d0de54ad44832589379a4bc... You get compile errors if you try to handle an impossible error, or don't…
    comment by AndyKelley · 2021-08-07 · in Looking into Zig
  47. > Can it be used for c++ code? Yup! https://github.com/ziglang/zig/commit/db17c0d88c44183b306099... > Also we build LLVM tip of tree from scratch... I would have also thought it would be non-trivial (Julia uses LLVM and has some…
    comment by O_H_E · 2021-07-18 · in Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang (2020)
  48. …etc) for for the target, then set them in the current env ("CC=zig-cc", "CXX=zig-c++") [1]. [0]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/8716 [1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/8973
    comment by Andoryuuta · 2021-07-18 · in Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang (2020)
  49. …https://github.com/Hejsil/zig-clap Also this pattern was also mentioned in the issue you mentioned: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2647#issuecomment-5898... The advantage of this system is that the caller can decide whether error…
    comment by kristoff_it · 2021-07-18 · in Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang (2020)
  50. …an allocation for errors, especially given that error handling is generally not the hot path. [0]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2647 (among other issues)
    comment by coder543 · 2021-07-18 · in Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang (2020)