Come home [any race] man edition Why aren't you using "C, but with the problems" fixed for your personal projects yet?
What are (you) using zig for? What are your hopes for zig? What do you like / dislike? Share your projects / experiences, ask questions, out yourself as a S O Y by telling us how shit the language is.
>"C, but with the problems" fixed what problems? in my mind its the programmer who creates them. not exactly a grybeard tho. convince me, op. what is superior about zig?
Tyler Cooper
>defer >very little UB >Comptime is default, so no preprocessor needed >Faster >Defer >Error handling >Defer >Errdefer >Sitaxe is simple and powerful >Uses C libraries better than C because it has namespaces >Compiles C and C++, so you can just add those with your zig project anyway (great for porting shit) >Infinitely better ABI control >Stack traces on debug mode >All std functions which allocate data ask you for an allocator >Namespaces >Best generics programming that exists at the moment >Inline is not a suggestion, it's a command >Symbols aren't exported between translation units by default And I'm sure there are others.
huh. will have a look at it. but it needs to be actually faster. bc im perfectly happy with C for now. (yeah im a neanderthal. sue me.)
Blake Gutierrez
I was too. For 10+ years I've looked for a C replacement, and now I found it. I'm happy to say C has finally become my second favourite language.
You have no idea how passionate I am about zig. No other language even comes close, and I was frakly losing hope on an actually good and simple language without any garbage collection or underlying runtime env bullshit to come out. And to think I almost got filtered by the stdlib documentation...
I should probably add that to the OP next time, thanks.
David Stewart
well, guess what. Zig is a C compiler too
John Lewis
>good and simple language without any garbage collection or underlying runtime env bullshit
kek. i think in the exact same criteria. was interested in rust but it is another victim of paradigm standing in the way of coding.
and >Zig is a C compiler too
is a big boon. i can reuse my codebase by just slapping it onto a zig project. didnt see zig supports branchless. or pointers to functions. no problem: if it doesnt, i can use C for that part.
sounds promising. ill give it a honest chance. thanks, lads
Isaiah Ramirez
Sick, the 3rd Zig thread in a row!
Bois, i have high hopes that Zig gonna actually get industry wide used upon 1.0 release.
Are strings easier to deal with in Zig? It's so fucking painful in C man. I can program in C fine but the thought of dealing with C strings really puts me off every time.
Josiah Flores
Zig is neat but the camelCase shit in the core language is off-putting. I can't. Sorry. Call me petty, call me retarded, looking at camel case is like looking at a 5 year old's scribbled drawings. You have to pay me to use camelCase. I wish Zig had nim's style ambiguity feature.
James Foster
XD You worry about that?
John Reyes
Zig has a pointer-and-length "string" type that's used pretty much everywhere in the standard library, as well as zero-terminated type for APIs that require it. Static strings have both a length and are zero-terminated, so they are useable for all APIs.
The standard library has a decent collection of string manipulation functions too, certainly better than C.
Zachary Price
It doesn't have a string type, if that's what you're asking. I never really minded C string manip, but I can say that slices help, just because you don't have to worry about overflows.
Brandon Morales
> Come home [any race] man edition I'm a woman, clearly zig is not the language for me
Alexander Campbell
>I'm a woman, clearly zig is not the language for me This is correct.
Cooper Baker
ewww girls are yucky
Josiah Bennett
ZIGGERS
Ryder Howard
Thanks, but I stick with C.
Angel Wood
Ziggers and "poggers" pilled.
Jayden Jones
You'll never be a real woman.
Ethan Brown
the reason why "she" cant prove anything is because "she" would be banned for posting gore on a blue board
