• @[email protected]
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    82 months ago

    I often wondered why people gush over it, but never tried it myself. This is actually an article I wanted to read!

    • @[email protected]
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      82 months ago

      I’d never heard of it, and now I have, so this was the article I needed to read… apparently.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 months ago

    Take this example for instance:

    fn doMath(x: anytype) @TypeOf(x) {
      // …
    }
    

    There is no way to know what that function requires as input.

    Of course you can’t know. That function has no requirements. As such there’s only one thing it can do… return x. Anything else is making an assumption about the parameter being passed.

  • Brusque
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    32 months ago

    The creator of Zig is a dope dude, one of the best Killer Queen players to have played the game.

  • @[email protected]
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    22 months ago

    Great article I think. I don’t have a lot of experience in zig, but I feel like it’s just a better version of C. More specifically, C with a more modern synthax, better defined behaviour, better error handling. As the author highlights it, using the comptime and reflection to make generics can easily become a footgun and make the code messy. But hey, having the option to make generic code is still better than C.