mark-sweep VS zig.vim

Compare mark-sweep vs zig.vim and see what are their differences.

mark-sweep

A simple mark-sweep garbage collector in C (by munificent)

zig.vim

Vim configuration for Zig (by ziglang)
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mark-sweep zig.vim
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727 476
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10.0 3.7
over 4 years ago 3 months ago
C Vim Script
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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mark-sweep

Posts with mentions or reviews of mark-sweep. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-12.
  • Roll A Lisp In C – Reading (2020)
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 May 2024
    Seconding the Make-A-Lisp and Crafting Interpreters recommendations. This post is also really great, it contains a hard written parser that you may learn from.

    You mentioned you want to write your lisp in javascript so you'll be getting quite a lot of functionality for free: memory allocation and garbage collection. Just in case anyone reading is going to write in C, here's an excellent introduction to the topic:

    https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-ga...

    Don't forget to spill the registers.

  • Let's Write a Malloc
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2023
    Never forget:

    https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-ga...

    > Let me stress here that while this collector is simple, it isn’t a toy.

    > There are a ton of optimizations you can build on top of this—in GCs and programming languages, optimization is 90% of the effort—but the core code here is a legitimate real GC.

    > It’s very similar to the collectors that were in Ruby and Lua until recently.

    > You can ship production code that uses something exactly like this.

    > Now go build something awesome!

  • loxcraft: a compiler, language server, and online playground for the Lox programming language
    14 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 29 Apr 2023
    Bob Nystrom also has a blog, and his articles are really well written (see his post on Pratt parsers / garbage collectors). I'd also recommend going through the source code for Wren, it shares a lot of code with Lox. Despite the deceptive simplicity of the implementation, it (like Lox) is incredibly fast - it's a great way to learn how to build production grade compilers in general.
  • The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2023
    Bob Nystrom (of Game Programming Patterns, Crafting Interpreters, and dartfmt fame) also wrote a tutorial[1], of a precise as opposed to a conservative garbage collector.

    Regarding register scanning, Andreas Kling has made (or at least quoted) an amusing observation[2] that your C runtime already has a primitive to dump all callee-save registers onto the stack: setjmp(). So all you have to do to scan registers is to put a jmp_buf onto the stack, setjmp() to it, then scan the stack normally starting from its address.

    [1] https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-ga...

    [2] https://youtu.be/IzB6iTeo8kk

  • Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2022
    - http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-gar...
  • Garbage Collection with LLVM
    3 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 24 Sep 2022
    Might not be that hard: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-garbage-collector/
  • Baby’s First Garbage Collector (2013)
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 10 Aug 2022
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 10 Aug 2022
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 9 Aug 2022
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Aug 2022

zig.vim

Posts with mentions or reviews of zig.vim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-27.
  • How to configure vim like an IDE
    44 projects | /r/vim | 27 Jun 2023
    I'm not a fan of debuggers and whatnot, so I don't have anything for that, but I use zig.vim for Zig/C/C++/Obj. C/anything else integration like highlighting. Additionally, vim-scripts/a.vim can be used for alternating between implementation/header files. I don't use it myself but vim-snippets can be used for common snippets.
  • Porting a simple Mark-Sweep Garbage Collector to Zig
    5 projects | dev.to | 20 May 2022
    Out of the box Vim works well enough as an editor for Zig but the experience is a bit underwhelming. So I installed the Vim configuration for Zig plugin get syntax highlighting.
  • Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code
    8 projects | /r/Zig | 17 Jan 2022
    About the fast zig check, looking around the the zig.vim plugin code, I think it would be zig fmt --ast-check.
  • Is there a zig plugin for neovim?
    3 projects | /r/Zig | 22 Oct 2021
    There is zig-vim, language server and support in nvim-treesitter
  • Set compiler from lua
    1 project | /r/neovim | 20 Aug 2021
    Currently there is no lua api for this command, so if you want a lua solution you would need to reimplement the functionality or reimplement the stuff inside this folder https://github.com/ziglang/zig.vim/tree/master/compiler
  • Ziglang : first contact with memory safety and simplicity
    4 projects | dev.to | 7 Feb 2021
    install zig for vim : https://github.com/ziglang/zig.vim

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mark-sweep and zig.vim you can also consider the following projects:

git-from-the-bottom-up - An introduction to the architecture and design of the Git content manager

zls - A Zig language server supporting Zig developers with features like autocomplete and goto definition

mmtk-core - Memory Management ToolKit

vim-plug - :hibiscus: Minimalist Vim Plugin Manager

c-examples - Example C code

neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

rust-gc - Simple tracing (mark and sweep) garbage collector for Rust

nvim-lsp-installer - Further development has moved to https://github.com/williamboman/mason.nvim!

Mesh - A memory allocator that automatically reduces the memory footprint of C/C++ applications.

helloZig - A zig sandbox

lisp2-gc - A simple implementation of the LISP2 mark-compact GC algorithm

SpaceVim - A community-driven modular vim/neovim distribution - The ultimate vimrc

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