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Thanks everyone for the kind words! It's been a lot of work to get this far, and the Zig project has further to go still. If you have a few bucks per month to

Thanks everyone for the kind words! It's been a lot of work to get this far, and the Zig project has further to go still. If you have a few bucks per month to spare, consider chipping in. I'm hoping to have enough funds soon to hire a second full time developer. https://github.com/users/andrewrk/sponsorship https://github.com/users/andrewrk/sponsorship

cycloptic 7y ago
Hi Andy, thanks for your hard work on this. I am not a Zig user/sponsor yet but hopefully I will be soon. It's looking better and better every month.
cshenton 7y ago
Thanks for all your effort on the project. By far my best experience with zig was writing an OpenGL renderer on windows which then “just worked” when I cloned it ran `zig build` on my Linux machine. Felt like magic.
jftuga 7y ago
For the 0.60 release, could you please provide a download for Raspberry Pi running Raspbian? On my RPi 4, 'uname -m -o' returns: armv7l GNU/Linux Thanks!
acqq 7y ago
It is amazing work, I'm so glad you invested your attention in this direction, kudos! I haven't used the language and the compiler yet but just reading the title article I almost jumped from joy, knowing how unexpectedly painful is to target different versions of system libraries on Linux.
nikisweeting 7y ago
It's been amazing following all the progress so far. I'm a proud $5/mo sponsor and look forward to writing something in Zig soon! Are there any concurrency constructs provided by the language yet? I'm just starting to learn how to do concurrency in lower-level langauges (with mutexes and spinlocks and stuff). I'm coming from the world of Python where my experience with concurrent state is limited to simple row-level locks and `with transaction.atomic():`. An equivalent article to this would be awesome for Zig: https://begriffs.com/posts/2020-03-23-concurrent-programming.html https://begriffs.com/posts/2020-03-23-concurrent-programming... Edit: I just found this announcement for async function support: https://ziglang.org/download/0.5.0/release-notes.html#Async-Functions https://ziglang.org/download/0.5.0/release-notes.html#Async-...
- AndyKelley 7y ago
  Yes! Here's a repository where I show some comparisons with Go: https://github.com/andrewrk/zig-async-demo/ https://github.com/andrewrk/zig-async-demo/ This area is still bleeding-edge experimental, but it's very promising. I need to do a blog post on how async/await works in zig and event-based I/O. It's been a long time coming.
BubRoss 7y ago
Why does zig purposely fail on windows text files by default? Do you really expect a language to catch on when you are purposely alienating windows users by refusing to parse \r for some bizarre reason?
- dnautics 7y ago
  Ok. So I'm currently writing something that parses zig code and explicitly not having to worry about \r is a godsend.
  - BubRoss 7y ago
    To be clear, not needing to ignore a single character is somehow a 'godsend'?
    - dnautics 7y ago
      Also tabs. I eventually discovered how to use parser combinators, but I would have made it more frustrating to get started and I'm somewhat conscientious the cognitive burden of these sorts of things can get overwhelming, especially for a project I'm not getting paid for.
      - BubRoss 7y ago
        Does zig error out on tabs too?
        AndyKelley 7y ago
        https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/FAQ#why-does-zig-force-me-to-use-spaces-instead-of-tabs https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/FAQ#why-does-zig-force-m...
        BubRoss 7y ago
        Why not just put this in the compiler like every other compiler in existence?
eggy 7y ago
I was happily supporting Zig/you at $5/month, but things got tight. I will be back on board next month! Keep up the great work Andy!
rochak 7y ago
This project invites donations. It is labor of love and solves problems that have been around a long time. Kudos!
wyldfire 7y ago
Hijacking your comment to ask a question: how hard is it to add support for a new architecture and/or triple (if I already have support in llvm)? Grand bootstrapping plan [1] sounds really impressive but still WIP? Is there a commit or series of commits showing recent targets that got support? [1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/853 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/853

cycloptic 7y ago

Hi Andy, thanks for your hard work on this. I am not a Zig user/sponsor yet but hopefully I will be soon. It's looking better and better every month.

cshenton 7y ago

Thanks for all your effort on the project. By far my best experience with zig was writing an OpenGL renderer on windows which then “just worked” when I cloned it ran `zig build` on my Linux machine. Felt like magic.

jftuga 7y ago

For the 0.60 release, could you please provide a download for Raspberry Pi running Raspbian? On my RPi 4, 'uname -m -o' returns: armv7l GNU/Linux Thanks!

acqq 7y ago

It is amazing work, I'm so glad you invested your attention in this direction, kudos! I haven't used the language and the compiler yet but just reading the title article I almost jumped from joy, knowing how unexpectedly painful is to target different versions of system libraries on Linux.

nikisweeting 7y ago

It's been amazing following all the progress so far. I'm a proud $5/mo sponsor and look forward to writing something in Zig soon! Are there any concurrency constructs provided by the language yet? I'm just starting to learn how to do concurrency in lower-level langauges (with mutexes and spinlocks and stuff). I'm coming from the world of Python where my experience with concurrent state is limited to simple row-level locks and `with transaction.atomic():`. An equivalent article to this would be awesome for Zig: https://begriffs.com/posts/2020-03-23-concurrent-programming.html https://begriffs.com/posts/2020-03-23-concurrent-programming... Edit: I just found this announcement for async function support: https://ziglang.org/download/0.5.0/release-notes.html#Async-Functions https://ziglang.org/download/0.5.0/release-notes.html#Async-...

AndyKelley 7y ago
Yes! Here's a repository where I show some comparisons with Go: https://github.com/andrewrk/zig-async-demo/ https://github.com/andrewrk/zig-async-demo/ This area is still bleeding-edge experimental, but it's very promising. I need to do a blog post on how async/await works in zig and event-based I/O. It's been a long time coming.

BubRoss 7y ago

Why does zig purposely fail on windows text files by default? Do you really expect a language to catch on when you are purposely alienating windows users by refusing to parse \r for some bizarre reason?

dnautics 7y ago
Ok. So I'm currently writing something that parses zig code and explicitly not having to worry about \r is a godsend.
- BubRoss 7y ago
  To be clear, not needing to ignore a single character is somehow a 'godsend'?
  - dnautics 7y ago
    Also tabs. I eventually discovered how to use parser combinators, but I would have made it more frustrating to get started and I'm somewhat conscientious the cognitive burden of these sorts of things can get overwhelming, especially for a project I'm not getting paid for.
    - BubRoss 7y ago
      Does zig error out on tabs too?
      - AndyKelley 7y ago
        https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/FAQ#why-does-zig-force-me-to-use-spaces-instead-of-tabs https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/FAQ#why-does-zig-force-m...
        BubRoss 7y ago
        Why not just put this in the compiler like every other compiler in existence?

eggy 7y ago

I was happily supporting Zig/you at $5/month, but things got tight. I will be back on board next month! Keep up the great work Andy!

rochak 7y ago

This project invites donations. It is labor of love and solves problems that have been around a long time. Kudos!

wyldfire 7y ago

Hijacking your comment to ask a question: how hard is it to add support for a new architecture and/or triple (if I already have support in llvm)? Grand bootstrapping plan [1] sounds really impressive but still WIP? Is there a commit or series of commits showing recent targets that got support? [1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/853 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/853