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Time to learn Zig!

• sagarm 5y ago
  Tried to learn Zig by doing AOC earlier this year. Wow, that was painful. Python is a much better match for all the text manipulation.
  • xyproto 5y ago
    That makes sense, but surely it must be possible to write a little string library in preparation for AOC, which would make Zig a better fit?
    • sagarm 5y ago
      Perhaps, but it's something that's difficult to do _while_ learning the language. The most painful part is hiding all the memory allocation and management, but perhaps you could just declare a static allocator of the default type. You could just an arena allocator probably; AOC problems should not run out of memory, even if allocations are never released.