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Re: Game Jam 2 Results
#226 or so data points, but still interesting. I myself have become enamored with Zig's relative simplcity and straightforwardness, although some of my friends keep telling me to do Rust instead.
Re: Game Jam 2 Results
#326 or so data points, but still interesting. I myself have become enamored with Zig's relative simplcity and straightforwardness, although some of my friends keep telling me to do Rust instead.
Yeah, not a lot of data points, and a niche subject, game dev, but I am playing with the Mach game and graphics engine, and so far so good. I started programming in 1978 in CPM Basic, C, 6502 assembler, etc. I play with Rust, but if I am really looking for high-integrity software, I am currently using SPARK2014 (the subset of Ada), that has some legs beneath it. Rust and AdaCore are starting to work together to bring some of this into Rust, but it's not there yet. So for me, Zig is my C replacement, and SPARK2014 is my C++/Rust replacement. You can go low-level with SPARK2014 too, and IMHO, it is far easier to understand than Rust, yet it already has all the high concepts of software integrity, safety, and verifiability. Excited about cross-platform graphics and performance with Zig and Mach.
Re: Game Jam 2 Results
#426 or so data points, but still interesting. I myself have become enamored with Zig's relative simplcity and straightforwardness, although some of my friends keep telling me to do Rust instead.
Yeah, not a lot of data points, and a niche subject, game dev, but I am playing with the Mach game and graphics engine, and so far so good. I started programming in 1978 in CPM Basic, C, 6502 assembler, etc. I play with Rust, but if I am really looking for high-integrity software, I am currently using SPARK2014 (the subset of Ada), that has some legs beneath it. Rust and AdaCore are starting to work together to bring…
Thanks for sharing. Going to enjoy some time with Spark2014.
OT: Searching for Spark2014 brings up a lot of results about the 2014 Chevrolet Spark. A shit box of a car of there ever was one.
Re: Game Jam 2 Results
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, not a lot of data points, and a niche subject, game dev, but I am playing with the Mach game and graphics engine, and so far so good. I started programming in 1978 in CPM Basic, C, 6502 assembler, etc. I play with Rust, but if I am really looking for high-integrity software, I am currently using SPARK2014 (the subset of Ada), that has some legs beneath it. Rust and AdaCore are starting to work together to bring…
Thanks for sharing. Going to enjoy some time with Spark2014. OT: Searching for Spark2014 brings up a lot of results about the 2014 Chevrolet Spark. A shit box of a car of there ever was one.
Hah, Chevy Spark, and it's a gasoline car!
I usually put "SPARK2014 programming" or "SPARK2014 Ada" in my searches. I used to get annoyed by all of the Apache Spark stuff that came up, but that seems to have waned a bit this past year or two.
Vermont Technical College (VTC) used SPARK2014 to program their CubeSat and the book, "Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK"[1] is a great intro to it in a nice context of practical use.
There was also an article on the AdaCore site about someone who rewrote some drone firmware in SPARK2014, which is another nice real-world application. [2]
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Building-High-Integrity-Applications-...
[2] https://blog.adacore.com/how-to-prevent-drone-crashes-using-...
Re: Game Jam 2 Results
#626 or so data points, but still interesting. I myself have become enamored with Zig's relative simplcity and straightforwardness, although some of my friends keep telling me to do Rust instead.
For me Rust is a language that I would absolutely love to work with in a professional context. The type system and borrow checker have your back and help you make changes to the code without fear of accidentally introducing any regressions.
For private lone-hacking projects though it feels way too complex and opinionated. Here Zig definitely gets closer to what I need, though sadly it made unused variables an compiler error (curse you golang for making that popular) which is super annoying for prototyping.
Re: Game Jam 2 Results
#726 or so data points, but still interesting. I myself have become enamored with Zig's relative simplcity and straightforwardness, although some of my friends keep telling me to do Rust instead.
For me Rust is a language that I would absolutely love to work with in a professional context. The type system and borrow checker have your back and help you make changes to the code without fear of accidentally introducing any regressions. For private lone-hacking projects though it feels way too complex and opinionated. Here Zig definitely gets closer to what I need, though sadly it made unused variables an compile…
I never understood this attitude, it's not like commenting out variables is difficult.
Re: Game Jam 2 Results
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me Rust is a language that I would absolutely love to work with in a professional context. The type system and borrow checker have your back and help you make changes to the code without fear of accidentally introducing any regressions. For private lone-hacking projects though it feels way too complex and opinionated. Here Zig definitely gets closer to what I need, though sadly it made unused variables an compile…
I never understood this attitude, it's not like commenting out variables is difficult.
>it's not like commenting out variables is difficult.
But if you comment var A that uses var B now B is unused and you need to commnet B, but now B was using a function parameter C and this param is unused now so you need to update the function signature (I do not use Go,Zig so maybe they did not forced you to also use all the function params my experience is with linters where ehwn you comment something then more unused warnings appear)
Re: Game Jam 2 Results
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me Rust is a language that I would absolutely love to work with in a professional context. The type system and borrow checker have your back and help you make changes to the code without fear of accidentally introducing any regressions. For private lone-hacking projects though it feels way too complex and opinionated. Here Zig definitely gets closer to what I need, though sadly it made unused variables an compile…
I never understood this attitude, it's not like commenting out variables is difficult.
It's not difficult, but it's disrupting to your coding flow, which is bad in itself and even worse when prototyping.
Re: Game Jam 2 Results
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never understood this attitude, it's not like commenting out variables is difficult.
>it's not like commenting out variables is difficult. But if you comment var A that uses var B now B is unused and you need to commnet B, but now B was using a function parameter C and this param is unused now so you need to update the function signature (I do not use Go,Zig so maybe they did not forced you to also use all the function params my experience is with linters where ehwn you comment something then more un…
Wow sounds like you really need to clean up your codebase.
Seriously, I have never had this problem while coding in Go, and I'm a very very sloppy coder.