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The most important note of this release is that Zig is now self-hosted; it is capable of compiling itself. I've been learning Zig as a side project for a coupl
by Cyberdog 4y ago
The most important note of this release is that Zig is now self-hosted; it is capable of compiling itself.
I've been learning Zig as a side project for a couple months now. It's been kind of hard since I don't have a lot of experience with low-level coding and Zig is a bit less user-friendly than Swift, but the folks in the IRC channel (and yes, its primary real-time chat community is an IRC channel, not some Slack/Discord nonsense) have always been super friendly with this newbie, right up to the project lead himself. I really suggest you give Zig a look if you want to have some fun learning a new language.
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- Herbstluft 4y agoI'm in the same boat, I've used Zig to go through AoC 2021, liked it. I know some C, as in worked through K&R years ago, but I possess little practical experience. Any recommendations for resources/books to learn knowledge and programming patterns applicable to Zig?(memory management best practices, low level programming, et cetera)
- cztomsik 4y agowhat's wrong with discord? the community there is awesome and very helpful.
- Cyberdog 4y agoDiscord and other Electron-based chat software provide very little practical improvement over IRC for the purpose of discussion while requiring 10-100x the resources.
- eatonphil 4y ago> and yes, its primary real-time chat community is an IRC channel, not some Slack/Discord nonsense As a counterpoint, I have only interacted with the Discord communities and they've been great for all my dumb questions! I barely go a minute before getting a response when I ask something. Whether you prefer IRC or Discord, it sounds like you're well supported by the chat communities.