zig VS vswhere

Compare zig vs vswhere and see what are their differences.

zig

General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software. (by ziglang)

vswhere

Locate Visual Studio 2017 and newer installations (by microsoft)
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zig vswhere
816 5
30,631 898
5.2% 2.2%
10.0 5.1
1 day ago about 2 months ago
Zig C++
MIT License MIT License
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zig

Posts with mentions or reviews of zig. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-23.

vswhere

Posts with mentions or reviews of vswhere. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-27.
  • how does this work?
    1 project | /r/github | 24 Jul 2023
    But often maintainers also upload Releases with builds of their software, e.g. like here: https://github.com/microsoft/vswhere/releases
  • Extending Python with Rust
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2022
    Finding where & how to use an installed VS instance (or selecting one) in automated tooling is solved by the criminally unknown, MIT licensed, MS supported, redistributable, vswhere tool: https://github.com/microsoft/vswhere
  • microsoft_craziness.h (2018)
    4 projects | /r/programming | 25 Nov 2021
    / // This file was about 400 lines before we started adding these comments. // You might think that's way too much code to do something as simple // as finding a few library and executable paths. I agree. However, // Microsoft's own solution to this problem, called "vswhere", is a // mere EIGHT THOUSAND LINE PROGRAM, spread across 70 files, // that they posted to github unironically. // // I am not making this up: https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere
  • Microsoft_craziness.h
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Nov 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing zig and vswhere you can also consider the following projects:

Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

fastplotlib - Next-gen fast plotting library running on WGPU using the pygfx rendering engine

Odin - Odin Programming Language

graphics_wgpu

v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io

pygfx - A python render engine running on wgpu.

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

tundra - Tundra is a code build system that tries to be accurate and fast for incremental builds

go - The Go programming language

builder - Simple build system for Visual C++

ssr-proxy-js - A Server-Side Rendering Proxy focused on customization and flexibility!

sol2 - Sol3 (sol2 v3.0) - a C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance - is here, and it's great! Documentation: