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> Zig's use of comptime is fairly revolutionary in a c-like language Not revolutionary. Before Zig came out, which was 2016, there was Jonathan Blow talking a
by Tozen 4y ago
> Zig's use of comptime is fairly revolutionary in a c-like language
Not revolutionary. Before Zig came out, which was 2016, there was Jonathan Blow talking about and arguably repopularizing it. Lots of people (who knows how many developers) and languages were influenced by him too.
2014, Jonathan Blow, who made lots of videos and gave lots of talks, before going on to officially promote Jai (2016). And it appears he was playing around with prototypes much earlier and talking about it (from 2014).
https://youtu.be/UTqZNujQOlA https://youtu.be/UTqZNujQOlA
(Demo: Base language, compile-time execution)
- pverghese 4y agoNot very useful to us when Jai has not been released to the public. I would like it to, but currently Zig is more complete than Jai, atleast with respect to it being able to be used by everyone
- Tozen 4y agoBy the time Zig reaches 1.0, Jai may have too or have been publicly released. And Jai's constraints on getting access to their Beta, appears to have been loosening over time.