alt Hacker NewsI don't think so, where's the extra information in the Zig example?
In Rust, which is arguably also a low level language, it looks like this:
enum Option<T> {
None,
Some(T),
}I don't think so, where's the extra information in the Zig example?
In Rust, which is arguably also a low level language, it looks like this:
enum Option<T> {
None,
Some(T),
}
Low-level doesn’t mean more information, it means more explicit.
In Zig, that means being able to use the language itself to express type level computations. Instead of Rust’s an angle brackets and trait constraints and derive syntax. Or C++ templates.
Sure, it won’t beat a language with sugar for the exact thing you’re doing, but the whole point is that you’re a layer below the sugar and can do more.
Option<T> is trivial. But Tuple<N>? Parameterizing a struct by layout, AoS vs SoA? Compile time state machines? Parser generators? Serialization? These are likely where Zig would shine compared to the others.