bnolsen · HackerLangs

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C++ and rust make these optionals ugly. Zig does it right. Zig also forbids null pointers and requires use of optionals.

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vor 20 Tagendiscuss

That's called a fat pointer. Null terminated c strings is the majority of memory errors out there.

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I was doing this for remote sensing orthorectification work back in 2004/2005. It works very well across multiple types of imaging sensors.

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I personally think something like the qok format is a better way to go. Make something that performs well and is dirt simple to implement.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

It's pretty sad it used to not be so bad in the US. This is what happens when ethics and morals are removed from the culture.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

I would think that you might have a better time going from go to zig. You would have to provide a pattern for implementing the interface model go uses.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Zig fails unit tests if there's a memory leak in those tests.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

One of the core design principles of zig is no implied behavior.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Unit tests in zig will fail if the tested code leaks memory.

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

I guess the 'zit' name was already taken by something else.

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

The radeon 8500 deserves to be on that list. It still has active Linux support under mesa.

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

HTML is not something to hold up as the standard for documentation.

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Why not just use zig for the entire thing?

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Not to be confused with zlib.

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Except for all the baggage it carries along with it including hacks to address baggage resulting in a very bloated language.

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vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Quaternions are left handed spinors. Please use the correct unified math models (clidfford algebra) rather than these 3d only hacks.

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vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Having worked with c++ strings and also string views I find zigs simple fat pointer to be fairly direct and straightforward, and a bit refreshing. Ownership is being coupled in with the type..

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vor 6 Monatendiscuss

And then zig shows up...

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

It's christmas and not april fools!

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vor 7 Monatendiscuss

I remember seeing this a long time ago and liking it, I just didn't have a use for it at the time. How does it stack up against luahit for perf and memory, and threading? It also looks like it could be worth looking at porting the compiler to zig which excels at both compiler writing and cross platform tooling.

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