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unzig
- Show HN: Zig Without Unused Variable Errors
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Added a flag to remove unused variable error
I really like Zig but the unused variable error really gets in the way of how I usually do exploratory code. I've managed to produce a forked version from release 0.10.1 that adds an --allow-unused flag which disables the error. The code is hacky but it seems to work. I didn't understand a lot about Zig's caching mechanism so I might have been a little aggressive in invalidating caches when the flag is switched on and off.
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What “sucks” about Zig?
I originally pulled it from here: https://github.com/markisus/unzig
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Zig: The Modern Alternative to C
It already exists. You’ll just have to compile it yourself which is relatively easy.
https://github.com/markisus/unzig
- Show HN: Zig Without Unused Variable Error
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Compiling Zig with Low RAM (16GB)?
I predict / hope that in the future, the community will just host patched binaries somewhere, but for now I have gone ahead and created a patch repo whose sole purpose is to remove the unused variable error where you still have to rebuild from source. https://github.com/markisus/unzig
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V Language Review (2023)
Their site is clearly showing the language is in beta. The V documentation also states that autofree is WIP, and to use the GC instead. This isn't a corporate created language, but looks to be a true volunteer open source effort from people around the world.
Their community, in comparison to others, even has their discussions open and open threads for criticism[1]. These
[1]https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7610
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Towards memory safety with ownership checks for C
V also has this https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md#embed_fil...
- Vlang Release v0.4.4
- Vox: Upcoming open-source browser engine in V
- Building a web blog in V & SQLite
- bultin_write_buf_to_fd_should_use_c_write
- The V Machine Learning Roadmap and Ecosystem
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Show HN: A new stdlib for Golang focusing on platform native support
Goroutines was the selling point for me until they decided to introduce telemetry in their toolchain; that was what forced me to stop using Golang as a whole.
About GC, I would say: if you implement C++'s RAII mechanism to replace garbage collection, then I believe this project will have a bright future.
My final question is the following: how `pcz` compares to V language, from a syntax's perspective [1]?
[1] https://github.com/vlang/v
- Hopefully, the V developers will establish a relationship with Microsoft.
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The V Programming Language 0.4
V has the right to exist, have its supporters, and do things its own way. The creator and developers of V, from what I have seen, has always responded well to constructive criticism. Their language has discussions opened at their GitHub, unlike those for various other languages. They even have a thread for what people don't like and want improved about the language[1], again, something many other languages don't have.
A lot of what was going on initially, was coming from obvious competitors, to include being uncivil, inflammatory, and insulting. The initial "criticism" was not so much that, but false accusations of the language being a scam, vaporware, fraud, or didn't really exist. To include attacks and jealousy about its funding and having supporters. This was not any kind of "valid" criticism, that the creator or contributors of the language could reason about.
The "criticism" never died down, but rather after V was open-sourced and established itself on GitHub. The initial series of false accusations could not stand nor could the support it was getting be stopped. So, the rhetoric and targets shifted to whatever could be found to go after on the newly released alpha version of the language and its new website. In that new mix of what was being thrown at it, there were indeed some very valid criticisms, as can be found with any new language.
Constructive and valid criticism, is not the same as insults, trolling, misinformation, rivalry, or false accusations. There is clearly a difference. It's disingenuous to pretend something from one group is the same as the other, or that the intent behind what is being done is not different.
[1] https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7610
What are some alternatives?
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zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
bitcoin-bash-tools - Set of bitcoin-related bash functions
go - The Go programming language
aviary.sh - Minimal distributed configuration management in bash
Odin - Odin Programming Language
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tigerbeetle - The distributed financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance.
sokol - minimal cross-platform standalone C headers
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