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Metaprogramming in Zig and parsing CSS

by hundredwatt on 6/19/23, 7:09 PM with 12 comments

• by bsaul on 6/19/23, 9:28 PM

  from all the zig features i've seen, comptime seems like the most likely to have the most impact on future PL design. I don't know how powerful it is in practice, but the idea looks so elegant and simple and they seem to have managed to make it work.

• by WalterBright on 6/19/23, 9:06 PM

  Here's a parser generator that uses metaprogramming in D to run it at compile time:

  https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/Pegged

• by lenkite on 6/20/23, 5:51 AM

  Zig is an amazing language. Just wish they weren't anti-RAII.

• by lionkor on 6/19/23, 9:34 PM

  The only thing stopping me from using Zig is the lack of docs