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The Road to Zig 1.0 [video]

by FraaJad on 5/12/19, 7:47 PM with 5 comments

• by kristoff_it on 5/12/19, 9:25 PM

  It's hard to overstate how nice the ergonomics of comptime execution are. I wrote a Cuckoo filter library in C a couple of years ago and then stopped because it really took too much effort to do all the things I wanted.

  Now I've rewritten it in Zig in one evening, it's drastically easier to understand and it even has more zero-cost features, all of this in less lines than the original macro-ridden code.

  I will soon add more comments and safety features, but for now it felt really good to be able to remove all the redundant code without having to recur to hacks.

  Here's the link: https://github.com/kristoff-it/zig-cuckoofilter

• by silisili on 5/12/19, 10:42 PM

  Nice talk! I could watch any PL talk for hours on end I think.

  Unrelated to the language, but at ~41 or 42 minute mark I noticed the pronunciation of 'executable' and it made me really think. He says it in a way that highlights 'exec', which makes a lot of sense, whereas I normally would say it with emphasis on the third syllable. Now I wonder how most programmers say that word...

• by joshbaptiste on 5/12/19, 10:09 PM

  Hmm.. never heard of Chariot Solutions yet they have a lot of technical presentation videos for my consumption, thanks.