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My experience with Zig is that it's also a plausible replacement for C++

fuzztester 2y ago
explanation needed, bro. nerdy langnoob or noobie langnerd here. not sure which is which, cuz my parsing skills are nearly zilch. ;)
- infamouscow 2y ago
  C programmers have long suffered the cumbersome ritual of struct manipulation—resorting to C++ merely to dress up structs as classes. Zig shatters that with comptime and the 'type' type.
- chongli 2y ago
  Zig’s comptime feature gives a lot of the power of C++ templates. This makes it easier to implement a lot of libraries which are just a pain to do in plain C. Even seemingly simple things like a generic vector are annoying to do in C, unless you abandon type safety and just start passing pointers to void. I believe Zig even has some libraries for doing more exotic things easily, such as converting between an array of structs and a struct of arrays (and back).
  - fuzztester 2y ago
    >Zig’s comptime feature gives a lot of the power of C++ templates. This makes it easier to implement a lot of libraries which are just a pain to do in plain C. Even seemingly simple things like a generic vector are annoying to do in C, unless you abandon type safety and just start passing pointers to void. I get it, thanks. in C you have to cast everything to (void *) to do things like a generic vector. >I believe Zig even has some libraries for doing more exotic things easily, such as converting between an array of structs and a struct of arrays (and back). yes, iirc, there was a zig thread about this on hn recently.
  - pjmlp 2y ago
    Depends on which C++ version you're talking about.
- fuzztester 2y ago
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  - dang 2y ago
    Possibly your GP comment came across as a snarky attack because of the first sentence. It's clear that you didn't mean it that way, but there isn't enough information in "explanation needed, bro" to disambiguate your intent (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=burden%20disambiguate%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
    - fuzztester 2y ago
      saw this just now. will reply in a day or two after reviewing my own comments, yours, and your link.

explanation needed, bro. nerdy langnoob or noobie langnerd here. not sure which is which, cuz my parsing skills are nearly zilch. ;)

infamouscow 2y ago
C programmers have long suffered the cumbersome ritual of struct manipulation—resorting to C++ merely to dress up structs as classes. Zig shatters that with comptime and the 'type' type.
chongli 2y ago
Zig’s comptime feature gives a lot of the power of C++ templates. This makes it easier to implement a lot of libraries which are just a pain to do in plain C. Even seemingly simple things like a generic vector are annoying to do in C, unless you abandon type safety and just start passing pointers to void. I believe Zig even has some libraries for doing more exotic things easily, such as converting between an array of structs and a struct of arrays (and back).
- fuzztester 2y ago
  >Zig’s comptime feature gives a lot of the power of C++ templates. This makes it easier to implement a lot of libraries which are just a pain to do in plain C. Even seemingly simple things like a generic vector are annoying to do in C, unless you abandon type safety and just start passing pointers to void. I get it, thanks. in C you have to cast everything to (void *) to do things like a generic vector. >I believe Zig even has some libraries for doing more exotic things easily, such as converting between an array of structs and a struct of arrays (and back). yes, iirc, there was a zig thread about this on hn recently.
- pjmlp 2y ago
  Depends on which C++ version you're talking about.
fuzztester 2y ago
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- dang 2y ago
  Possibly your GP comment came across as a snarky attack because of the first sentence. It's clear that you didn't mean it that way, but there isn't enough information in "explanation needed, bro" to disambiguate your intent (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=burden%20disambiguate%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
  - fuzztester 2y ago
    saw this just now. will reply in a day or two after reviewing my own comments, yours, and your link.