nsd VS zig

Repository of scripts written in the language - https://github.com/ngs-lang/nsd

> there isn't really an entry point in murex scripts

I have a nice trick in NGS for that. Under the idea that "small scripts should not suffer", script is running top to bottom without "entry point". However, if the script has defined main() function, it is invoked (with command line arguments passed).

Example - https://github.com/ngs-lang/nsd/blob/afe0cad5e506ec4ee2fa924...

> `args` still contains more boilerplate code than I'm happy with

Is there anything preventing you to have exactly the same functionality but with syntactic sugar that it looks like parameters declaration? (Just to be clear, keeping all the ARGV machinery).

Something like (assuming local variables are supported; if not, it could still be $args[Flags] etc):

  function hippo(name:str, hungry:bool) {

NGS Scripts Dumpster - collection of small scripts in NGS

Doing DevOps today? 99% either abuse bash or abuse a general purpose programming language.

bash does not meet any modern expectations from a programming language: syntax, error handling, data structures

General purpose languages such as Python, Ruby, etc are not domain specific enough to have the desired facilities.

Here is small example of straightforward solution to a small problem: list all CloudFormation stacks that are managed by the given CodePipeline.

https://github.com/ngs-lang/nsd/blob/02d66abb844b7dd6077b9976e3a03659cf4b3660/aws/codepipeline/pipeline-stacks.ngs

The script is at https://github.com/ngs-lang/nsd/blob/master/aws/cloudformation/delete-stack.ngs

There is an issue proposing this approach: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/4284

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/224

e.g.:

> > When debugging/prototyping, it's useful to comment out a line without having to refactor, e.g.

When writing code in a scripting language, sometimes you need that extra bit of performance (or maybe an async feature from Zig).

NodeJS is by no means a slow runtime, it wouldn’t be so popular if it was. But compared to Bun, it’s slow. Bun was built from the ground up with speed in mind, using both JavascriptCore and Zig. The Bun team spent an enormous amount of time and energy trying to make Bun fast, including lots of profiling, benchmarking, and optimizations.

ntdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart()

There are valid reasons to use APIs from NTDLL. Where I disagree with zig#1840 is the idea that it is always better to use NTDLL versions of API. Every other software ecosystem uses the standard Win32 APIs and diverging from that without a good reason seems like a good way to have unexpected behavior. One concrete example is most users and programmers expect Windows to redirect some file system paths when running on WOW64. But this is implemented in Kernel32, not ntdll.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/11894

Zig also has an IRC channel on libera (#zig) that is moderated by Andrew Kelley.[1]

[1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Community