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by kristoff_it 1y ago
For context this was presented, alongside other things, in the Zig Roadmap 2026 stream. VOD: https://youtu.be/x3hOiOcbgeA
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
> Zig's handling of unused variables seems like an unforgivably bad design choice to me. Its been raised by the community plenty of times. Why hasn't it been fixed? Because yours is just an opinion. It's perfectly legitima
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
> As you've just demonstrated, that point can be made without even mentioning Zig, let alone copy/pasting some compile time stuff with no other comment or context. Which is why I thought (well, hoped) there might be something m
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
How confident are you that memory safety (or lack thereof) is a significant variable in how fast a compiler is?
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
I think the most relevant thing is that building a simple website can (and should) take milliseconds, not minutes, and that -- quoting from the post: > A brief note: 50 seconds is fine, actually! 50 seconds should actually not be conside
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
Zig is starting to migrate to custom backends for debug builds (instead of using LLVM) plus incremental compilation. All Zig code is built in a single compilation unit and everything is compiled from scratch every time you change something,
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Parallel Self-Hosted Code Generation in the Zig Compiler(ziglang.org)
14 points by kristoff_it 1y ago|2 comments
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
> Speaking of DoD, an additional thing to consider is the maintainability of the compiler codebase. Imagine that we swung our magic wand again, and rewrote everything over the night using DoD, SIMD vectorization, hand-rolled assembly, et
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
That's a special case for sure, given the new fight for supremacy between the two forks, that said you can see in all those threads antirez bickering with the AWS people over exactly who introduced what.
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
> AWS will take your initial and ongoing investment in the implementation but they don't have to share theirs with you. Specifically, they will take your improvements but their own improvements (say some performance optimizations) t
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
It works really, really well, in part because it's also capable of tracking where an error is turned into another. And the error return trace ends where the stack trace begins (when an error is turned into a panic) so you don't ev
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
Zig ships release fast but there's an accepted proposal (not implemented yet) to change unstable builds to be release safe.
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
> Does the zig compiler not support generating .o’s without a build.zig? Of course it does, all the build system does is orchestrate invocations to the other basic zig subcommands (`build-exe`, `build-lib`, `build-obj`, etc). You can inv
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
Depends on the project, the general recommendation is to use metaprogramming like salt: just a pinch to add some flavor. Newcomers sometimes go bonkers with it though.
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
Zig has on the roadmap the creation of a compiler REPL to power all kinds of code intelligence tools, including LSPs. This item is blocking only on finishing incremental compilation.
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
We have it packaged for Zig, just run `zig build` and you can play the game on Linux, macOS and Windows. https://github.com/allyourcodebase/VVVVVV
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
No, Andrew deleted his Discord account a while ago. Regardless, having the creator present does not make a space official, it's a matter of who owns the space and what the general policy is. The general policy of the Zig Software Found
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
1. Questions and answers on Discord are searchable, there's a channel format that makes every conversation a thread and the UI even automatically searches for matches as you type the title of a new thread, which is what the Zig Discord
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
Discourse has the feature where the comment marked as answer will be placed up top right after the question.
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
Ziggit is indeed another active community and it's perfectly legitimate to want to stick to a platform vs another for personal preference, the people who downvoted this comment should really re-evaluate the way the approach this subjec
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
Discord is just one of many places where you can get help from other Zig community members. Over time I've seen plenty of comments like this one about platform A vs platform B and I find them all absolutely uninteresting. Having an act
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by kristoff_it 2y ago
That's all fair, it just means that it's a bit too early for you to use Zig then. The project can't come out already at v1 out of thin air, so it's a matter of being patient and waiting for the people working on it to ma
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by kristoff_it 2y ago
Well it means that you can use the language if you are willing to rewrite some of your code from time to time because we don't guarantee backwards compatibility between updates. That's the nature of a work in progress project. I
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Incremental compilation instantly rebuilds the Zig compiler [video](youtube.com)
92 points by kristoff_it 2y ago|15 comments
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by kristoff_it 2y ago
Huh? The whole point of Roc is to let you easily put both imperative and functional code in the same project through Roc's platform system. You get to decide what part of your code should be imperative, and which should be functional.
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How I think about Zig and Rust(lewiscampbell.tech)
2 points by kristoff_it 2y ago|0 comments
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by kristoff_it 2y ago
https://zig.news/kristoff/building-sqlite-with-cgo-for-every...
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by kristoff_it 2y ago
> Well, your explanation doesn't really tell why do I call .deinit() on a structure before alllocator() call and calling all the rest important stuff on a structure after such call. That's because the Allocator interface doesn&
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by kristoff_it 2y ago
Zig is a 0.x language for a reason, and that reason is to not have to offer any kind of backward compatibility until main development is complete.
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by kristoff_it 2y ago
There are a few different ways of implementing interfaces, each with different tradeoffs, so it's not boilerplate :^)

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