marionette: deterministic simulation testing library
https://github.com/sb2bg/marionette
#Programming #Testing #ZigLang
Overengineered calculator: Zig + QBE
https://tomekw.com/overengineered-calculator-zig-qbe/
#Programming #ZigLang #Compilers
Inside Zig's Incremental Compilation
https://mlugg.co.uk/posts/incremental-compilation-internals/
#Programming #Compilers #ZigLang
Hacker News
@hackernews@robot.villas
Top stories from Hacker News See old posts. I am a bot that mirrors an RSS feed. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
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Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16
https://ziggit.dev/t/cruller-buns-zig-runtime-continued-on-zig-0-16/16734
#HackerNews #Tech #ZigLang
Ramin Honary
@ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org
Born in the United States, I am a professional software engineer, and have been since 2008. I do full-stack app development, mostly in Python and JavaScript, and also work on embedded computers, mostly programmed in C/C++. I am passionate about functional programming languages, especially Haskell, Scheme, and Emacs, so this is mostly what my posts are about. I care deeply about human rights and justice for the poor, persecuted, and underprivileged people. **Warning:** I will occasionally re-share posts containing images of the victims of the Gaza holocaust **which do not have content warnings.** I do this because I feel we should not look away from the horrors of genocide, we have collectively forfeit our right to not see the shock and horror of these images. I am strongly opposed to war, fascism, and any ideology driven by hatred. I reject all forms of violence except self defense (war and terrorism are never self defense). Climate change is an issue of human rights because it will cause the most harm to the poor and underprivileged. I am especially concerned about large corporations and nation-states using AI as a means of controlling people through targeted advertising, mass surveillance, and "pre-crime" policing. Most of the political posts that I boost are about climate change, and the abuse of AI technology. Since late 2023, I have been especially horrified by the genocide being committed by the United States and Israel against the people of Palestine, although I now understand that these crimes against humanity have been ongoing almost continuously since 1948. **A large number** of the posts I boost are about the ongoing genocide against the people of Palestine, as well as all the other innumerable crimes against humanity committed by the states of the US and Israel throughout the Middle East and elsewhere. Usually I am careful to only boost posts that respect content warning rules. I also love retro-computing, especially computers from the late 70s to early 90s, in particular old Apple computers, but I love all old computers from that era. I will often boost post on these topics. I am also passionate about free/libre software, especially Linux. Most of my posts are about functional programming languages, retro-computing, and Linux. I will occasionally author and boost posts about this. I also enjoy procedurally generated art (which do not use LLMs), what you might call "algorithmic art," and photography, and will probably boost posts sharing artwork like this fairly often as well. #tech #Software #Computers #Linux #Emacs #Lisp #Scheme #ProgrammingLanguage #ProceduralArt #GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt #Gaza #Genocide #MiddleEast #War #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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River is a Wayland compositor written in Zig that defines a window manager protocol so that, like with X11, write your own window management software. As with X11, the protocol is language-agnostic, so you can define your window manager using any programming language at all.
I have been gradually becoming more interested in Zig as a potential replacement for C in systems programming. Rust is another interesting potential replacement.
#tech #software #Zig #ZigLang #Linux #Wayland #WindowManager #WaylandCompositor #RiverCompositor #UnixPorn
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@sigismundninja@mastodon.nu
Research engineer who's into computer science, complex systems and philosophy. I try to reduce the (too large) amount of political content I consume and create, but it's difficult in these crazy times. 🌹 Toots in English and Swedish.
mastodon.nu
An adult and reasonable take on #rustlang and #LLM use. I'm starting to get tired of the #ziglang hype. Soon you'll remember why the borrow checker and the "enforced" functional style was a good idea. Sure, Rust is bloated and messy. Many rewrites has been silly or about copyleft. Still, the backlash has not been in proportional.
https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust
How is Zig working out after 3 years and 100k lines of game code?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXpUShkr2VQ
#Programming #ZigLang #GameDev
💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]
@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
me: bi gen x computer toucher and healthcare worker. posts/boosts: memes, computer stuff, pol memes with cw, gender equality, climate change, socialism, people's art. if i block you, its probably because: bigoted; uspol-boosting-without-cw; vibe coder; or darwin award contender. assassination coordinates: -33.93148, 150.92321 follow requests on to screen out bots, uspol and to vibe check. if ur posts are all private there may not be enough to vibe. server: openbsd tablet: postmarketos phone: android 😞 mediacenter: arch btw laptop: openbsd interests: ◘ memes ◘ tai chi ◘ tcm/acupuncture ◘ shiatsu ◘ music ◘ foss ◘ scifi ◘ recreational programming ◘ geopolitics ◘ history ◘ weather/climate change ◘ hugs/headpats header based on image: https://au.pinterest.com/pin/fischl-bisexual-icon--142918988168575327/ then cropped and processed with graphicsmagick. posts self-destruct after one week. snac too slow to chug through more. #noai #noindex #nobot #nobridge
swarm.coiloptic.org
Questions about pointers:
I'm learning a bit of Zig and have never used pointers before (I do understand the general concept of how to use them, that they point to address etc).
afaik using pointers is faster than operating on/ looking up the variables themselves?
My main confusion (using example below) is, why dereference the pointer with 'ptr.*' in the 3rd line? Why not just plug in the address directly with '&num'? Is that for performance too? Otherwise the code seems convoluted for no reason.
var num: u8 = 12;
const ptr: *u8 = #
std.testing.expectEqual(ptr.*, num);
#ziglang
C:\KKJ\>
@w84death@fosstodon.org
Krzysztof Krystian Jankowski > Cyfrowy Nomada and P1X Founder. > Producer at beffio. I know how to code. I know how to make Pixel Art and 3D. I know how to fly FPV racing quads. I have a server in the apartment. I'm still using floppies. I'm obsessed with making games in 8-bit (Game Boy Color) and 16-bit assembly (MS-DOS).
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