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Cloudef • last Friday at 7:16 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Try reading zig code. For me its much more readable than the other languages, and does not suffer the fact go doesnt have language level errors. Local allocators are very useful and if you dont think so, perhaps you havent dwelved too deeply into systems programming or the language isnt targeted for you.

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coxmi • today at 8:48 AM

The dot syntax used everywhere really confuses me. I get its use in struct fields, or for defining anonymous structs, but what is this one for? (Some kind of module-level enum space, where .sampler and .unknown are defined previously?)

  const Sampler = @SpirvType(.sampler);
                             ^

  const Image = @SpirvType(.{ .image = .{
    .usage = .{ .sampled = u32 },
    .format = .unknown,
              ^
  } });
Everything else about zig is quite readable, but this gets me every time. Maybe I'm being dumb though.
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laszlojamf • last Friday at 12:58 PM

I get the usefulness of allocators, I just don't see them as useful enough where I'd pick zig over another established systems programming language. Do you have an example?

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