bnolsen · HackerLangs

20 giorni fadiscuss

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 giorni fadiscuss

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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2 mesi fadiscuss

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 mesi fadiscuss

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 mesi fadiscuss

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

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2 mesi fadiscuss

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

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2 mesi fadiscuss

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

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3 mesi fadiscuss

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

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3 mesi fadiscuss

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

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3 mesi fadiscuss

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

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3 mesi fadiscuss

Why not just use zig for the entire thing?

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5 mesi fadiscuss

Not to be confused with zlib.

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5 mesi fadiscuss

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 mesi fadiscuss

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 mesi fadiscuss

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 mesi fadiscuss

And then zig shows up...

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7 mesi fadiscuss

It's christmas and not april fools!

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7 mesi fadiscuss

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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