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Interesting. I keep seeing marketing on “no hidden flow control”, but I’m curious what flow control is being hidden in other languages? Are they talking about

• e12e 5y ago
  See: https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/#no-hidden-control-flow https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/#no-hidden-cont... I'd venture a guess that exceptions might be the "least bad" here, and things like "a + b" resulting in "a. plus(b)" is considered worse. At any rate they seem to want jumps/calls to be visible/obvious.
• cturtle 5y ago
  Operator overloading, constructors, destructors, exceptions, etc. This page [0] is good for comparing Zig to other languages. And this [1] is a nice overview of the language. One reason I think "no hidden control flow" is used so much when talking about Zig, is because Zig wants code to be easy to read, including understanding what is happening behind the scenes. Zig also has no hidden allocations (a function call will not allocate unless given an allocator) which fits this model. [0]: https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/ https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/ [1]: https://ziglang.org/learn/overview/ https://ziglang.org/learn/overview/