alt Hacker NewsI could never get into zig purely because of the syntax and I know I am not alone, can someone explain the odd choices that were taken when creating zig?
the most odd one probably being 'const expected = [_]u32{ 123, 67, 89, 99 };'
and the 2nd most being the word 'try' instead of just ?
the 3rd one would be the imports
and `try std.fs.File.stdout().writeAll("hello world!\n");` is not really convincing either for a basic print.
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> and the 2nd most being the word 'try' instead of just ?
All control flow in Zig is done via keyword
These are extremely trivial, to the point that I don’t really know what you’re complaining about. What would expect or prefer?
'const expected = [_]u32{ 123, 67, 89, 99 };'
constant array with u32, and let the compiler figure out how many of em there are (i reserve the right to change it in the future)
I will never understand people bashing other languages for their syntax and readability and then saying that they prefer Rust. Async Rust is the ugliest and least readable language I've ever seen and I've done a lot of heavily templated C++