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One of the new features I found interesting, declarations for global variables, is buried in the reference manual. Here's a link to the section that discusses it: https://www.lua.o…

I love Organic Maps! I don't use it for driving, but I do use it regularly for hiking. It is reassuring to know that even if I don't have service I can open the app and can check t…

It’s not often I come across someone familiar with Islington. I also highly recommend his books, The Will of the Many is my favorite read this year. I keep hearing good things abou…

Maybe you compiled in Debug rather than a Release mode? There is also definitely enough time before Zig reaches 1.0 to improve things.

In addition to the other answers, this is the most logical way to handle most errors in this specific type of code. The http code in the Zig standard library doesn’t know how the p…

No I hadn't considered that. I wouldn't be against my "zf algorithm" being ported to other tools though. But when I first had the idea for zf I had just learned Zig and it seemed l…

> Kakoune does the same Great! I’m glad I’m not the only one to have thought of this simple idea :)

Author here! I’m aware of the FZF search syntaxes. They are very useful! I designed zf to be a small tool that worked a bit better for me by default without special syntaxes.

I value simplicity and control. Zig is a very consistent language in syntax and semantics, so there are a small number of features I need to be concerned with. My understanding is …

I’ve absolutely had satisfaction with my several personal projects written in Zig. And based on an imperfect measurement (GitHub stars) I have also had moderate success in making s…

GSoC was a great experience. It was my first time planning a major contribution to an open source project. It would have been much more challenging for me without the help of my me…

I did! I did the Google Summer of Code twice with Blender and ever since I find myself preferring the patch workflow of Phabricator over the merge/pull request found elsewhere. I a…

It’s fitting that this is on the homepage because the Qualtrics CEO is named Zig /s

Firenvim may be a partial solution: https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim

The linked post mentioned that the compiler itself does compile faster, but not by much. Memory usage is the greatest impact of stage2. The speed will come when the native backends…

Thanks for reaching out! At the moment I can't think of anything specific. It was just some small papercuts that added up enough to prevent me from using it regularly, not a lack o…

The other replies are correct, but there is a bit more to it. Lua is a very small language with a tiny standard library. To extend it you write modules in C (or another language wi…

Lite (and lite-xl) is an amazing little editor. I especially love how fast the program opens. There’s just a few small things that bother me enough to keep me from using it, but I …

That’s because “proper” macOS apps close windows not apps when you click the little red dot in the upper left. See some of the answers here https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions…

Maybe the runtime safety in debug builds? Like for out of bounds, int overflows, etc. In my zig projects those checks have saved me from using a debugger or valgrind in many cases.…

As others mentioned, yes! If you’re curious on how it works I write a sort of deep-dive on the git internals of how this works: https://nathancraddock.com/blog/2022/custom-git-comm…

I clicked the link expecting that song, but the performance was entirely unexpected. Very strange!

Yes not everything can be imported perfectly. With my project making a Lua wrapper library in Zig I had to fix a few poorly translated macros. Overall though most translated just f…