alt Hacker NewsJust creating a file with dummy test like
if (2 * 2 != 5) { @panic("fail"); }
And running `zig test file.zig -OReleaseSafe` takes a couple seconds on my computer. It also keeps taking the same amount of time every time I do it when I modify that file. Using 0.16 (or master) version so my toolchain isn't old and I'm on linux.
Zig is super nice to use as a language but the compiler/stdlib isn't developed conservatively enough imo.
You may not run into an issue like this when starting out with hello world but you will want to run optimized binaries for fuzz testing or benchmarking. And then it becomes super annoying considering you might be compiling a relatively small amount of code.
Just for comparison, imo Zig is a much better language than these other languages, but if you did something like this in Rust/C++/C etc. this kind of issues basically doesn't ever happen. Assuming clang/gcc/ninja etc. usage for C/C++.
I am able to use Ninja/Python/clang for configuring/building (-O2 or -O3)/testing ~10k loc C++ project in 200ms on the same computer for example.
Also another point. I have some zig projects from couple of months back and they all have build.zig/build.zig.zon. I tried to copy that to the new dummy project I did and of course the API changed and that is broken now (just 15 lines of build.zig code).
This kind of thing just feels unacceptable considering I don't really see ANY improvement on the issues I had from back then.
Also had a similar baffling experience when I last tried to come back to writing Zig. The std.time.Instant or similar API that also exists in rust and most other languages was move to the new Io interface and they also completely removed that std.time.Instant code.
Overall it feels like people developing the tool don't respect the people using the tool. C++ or even Rust are much less enjoyable languages to write compared to Zig so it is really sad that it is not possible to actually use Zig for me.