bnolsen · HackerLangs

20 days agodiscuss

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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20 days agodiscuss

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

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last monthdiscuss

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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last monthdiscuss

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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2 months agodiscuss

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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2 months agodiscuss

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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2 months agodiscuss

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

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2 months agodiscuss

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

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2 months agodiscuss

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

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3 months agodiscuss

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

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3 months agodiscuss

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

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3 months agodiscuss

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

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3 months agodiscuss

Why not just use zig for the entire thing?

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5 months agodiscuss

Not to be confused with zlib.

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5 months agodiscuss

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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5 months agodiscuss

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

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6 months agodiscuss

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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6 months agodiscuss

And then zig shows up...

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7 months agodiscuss

It's christmas and not april fools!

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7 months agodiscuss

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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