Zig 0.5.0 Release Notes
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Zig 0.5.0 Release Notes
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#2It's an exciting week for programming languages. First Nim, then Zig. Keep up the great work!
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#3It's an exciting week for programming languages. First Nim, then Zig. Keep up the great work!
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#4One thing that immediately stood out to me was the section titled “UEFI support” [1]. And there are demo projects and examples too. Neat!
[1]: https://ziglang.org/download/0.5.0/release-notes.html#toc-UE...
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
And Crystal! https://crystal-lang.org/2019/09/23/crystal-0.31.0-released....
Sorry! But Crystal was last week's news! This week is Zig's turn on HN :)
To be fair, Crystal's release was the same day as Nim!
But yes, now it is Zig's time! I'm happy for all of them.
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#7Zig looks like a really interesting language. I've been keeping my eye on it, waiting excitedly for the 1.x milestone.
Out of curiosity, what's the state of the world regarding Zig's stdlib? While the base language docs seem like they're in a pretty good state, the stdlib is still largely undocumented. Is this because it's unstable? Or is the lack of docs there due to lack of time/resources? Would love to get some clarification. Thanks!
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#8Looks like its still lacking in network support:
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2007
I wonder though, does it already have socket support? that could be a stopgap for me. Edit, looks like it doesnt have sockets either:
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1271
Edit 2, looks like it does:
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/5026db1d/lib/std/net.zig...
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/5026db1d/lib/std/os.zig#...
Re: Zig 0.5.0 Release Notes
#9Zig looks like a really interesting language. I've been keeping my eye on it, waiting excitedly for the 1.x milestone. Out of curiosity, what's the state of the world regarding Zig's stdlib? While the base language docs seem like they're in a pretty good state, the stdlib is still largely undocumented. Is this because it's unstable? Or is the lack of docs there due to lack of time/resources? Would love to get some cl…
The stdlib documentation is definitely the biggest sore spot of zig for me. It took me a little while to feel comfortable enough digging through the code to start finding what I could do with the stdlib. It slows me down programming using the language significantly.
Re: Zig 0.5.0 Release Notes
#10One thing that immediately stood out to me was the section titled “UEFI support” [1]. And there are demo projects and examples too. Neat! [1]: https://ziglang.org/download/0.5.0/release-notes.html#toc-UE...
Zig + UEFI = Comic Neue in the BIOS.
[0] https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1176561072398098432
Perhaps I could see some toy ransomware bootkit demanding the user to pay up or face using your computer with comic neue or comic sans as the default unchangeable font.