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I've never worked with Zig in my life, and I don't have an opinion on it either. I've heard it's neat. Despite that, this post was intuitively clear to me. Zig
by bheadmaster 1y ago
I've never worked with Zig in my life, and I don't have an opinion on it either. I've heard it's neat. Despite that, this post was intuitively clear to me.
Zig's *std.Io.Reader and Writer seem to be abstractions over many types, like Java's interface class, Go's interfaces, C++'s concepts or Rust's traits.
However, it seems that abstraction itself is leaky - in that the length of the buffer is an implicit dependency which cannot be known from the type alone.
Admittedly, we don't know if there's a good explanation for the behavior - but then again, HN comments are as good a place to learn as any. Maybe someone will come up and explain.