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If you have a self-contained project, where you don't depend on anyone else and others don't depend on you, MinGW works great. Problems arise when you have dependencies that don't …

Wait till they find out what the Visual Studio Installer itself does :) I guess this person just trusts a big company like Microsoft who keeps their source hidden more than a singl…

Yeah I noticed wine wasn't able to execute the MSI files. It also had a problem with the lock files. Both problems should be fixable though.

None taken :) I think sharing our thoughts and discussing them is how we learn and grow. The best people in their craft are those who aren't afraid to put themselves out there, eve…

I avoid using exceptions myself so I wouldn't be surprised if I misunderstand them :) I love to learn and welcome new knowledge and/or correction of misunderstandings if you have t…

"You can't handle all of them and you don't know which you'll get" is a great summary of the first two problems, and, this same problem also applies to Python. I'll add that these …

It's a bit more than your typical "interop via C". With a "sized opaque" type you actually can stack allocate C++ values in Zig (and vice versa stack allocate Zig values in C++), i…

Yeah this is correct. You don't want to pass these values around "by value" but, you should be able to "embed them" and pass "pointers to them". It's a middle-ground between a comp…

I checked the git history to see if you included the Zig version but looks like first revision is rust... In the Zig version did you use my zigwin32 project or did you go with some…

Hope to be able to bring Linux back at some point. Unfortunately there wasn't enough users to justify spending development time on it. It's hard to tell if the user count was low b…

Here's an example: https://github.com/marler8997/zigup/blob/4d25c7e387a996c6b83...

Great game, cleverly demonstrates a fundamental problem with creating rules/laws. I've wondered if focusing on the goal/intent when creating rules would be more effective? For exam…

D's actually worse than Zig in regard to point 3. Kristoff's example demonstrates why. In D you would have to change the "if" to a "static if", D will always evaluate normal "if's"…