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I wonder if it's worth it to use zigs build system in projects. I've seen tried and failed to build a number of zigs projects when I'd last looked into it.
by bobajeff 3y ago
I wonder if it's worth it to use zigs build system in projects. I've seen tried and failed to build a number of zigs projects when I'd last looked into it.
- messe 3y agoThe language is in flux at the moment, so unless the projects are updated to use master (and are being built with master), one tends to run into incompatibilities not infrequently.
- GuestHNUser 3y agoCurious which projects you had issues with? I've only had positive experiences using zig build. Maybe you ran into version issues because 0.11 changed the entire build api?
- flohofwoe 3y agoEspecially the build system had tons of changes on the way to 0.11.0, and many Zig projects seem to prefer to "live on dev", so frequent breakage wasn't all that surprising during the last year or so.
- wredue 3y agoThe worth of a build system that is actively advertised as “not ready for production” is entirely individually dependant.
- david2ndaccount 3y agoI personally would rather not use a pre 1.0 release of an entirely different programming language to compile my C/C++ projects.
- bsder 3y agoCough ... cmake ... cough. If you use Meson/Ninja then I apologize in advance.