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One would just run tests and rebuild for the supported targets? That will hit all comptime branches that you care about without needing to do anything else. I don't see how this is much worse? What you seem to be looking for is an "unused function" (https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/335) error instead as it catches that case unless you use the function in a branch that's not part of your target set (truly dead unused code).
There's support for invoking with qemu, wine, etc in the build system which allows you to run tests for other platforms.
A case where I've taken advantage if this is to have data structures and code adjust based on the expected page size and cache-line. There are also cases where things may be both comptime and runtime known depending on which platform that you target which is easy to handle by having the maybe comptime value be first in conditional branches.
> For the most part, Eclipse has fallen into obscurity.
I guess it depends on the locale/company/environment?
In most conferences, online videos, as well as among the people I know personally, JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA for Java) seem to reign supreme: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
They have a community version, personally I pay for the Ultimate package of all the tools. They're slightly sluggish, want a lot of RAM, but the actual development experience and features make up for that.
I know that Eclipse is sometimes used more in an educational setting, however there are also both some specialized tools, as well as customized versions for something like working with Spring in the industry: https://spring.io/tools
In my experience, the idea behind the IDE is nice (a platform that you can install whatever you want on, entire language support packages, or specialized tool packages), but the execution falls short - sometimes it's unstable, other times it works slow and so on. That said, it's passable.
I would say that personally I'd almost prefer NetBeans to Eclipse, even after it was given over to the Apache Foundation, which have released a few versions since: https://netbeans.apache.org/
It seems to do less than either Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA do, but for general purpose Java editing and limited work with other stacks (PHP, webdev stuff, some C/C++) it is good and pleasant to use. However, if you have projects that get close to half a million lines of code, it does just kind of break and gets way slower than the alternatives. It still somehow feels more coherent than Eclipse to me, would pick it if IntelliJ IDEA didn't exist.
Some also try doing something like using Visual Studio Code with a Java plugin: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/java
That said, I only used that briefly when I needed something lightweight for a netbook of mine, the experience was somewhat underwhelming. The autocomplete or refactoring wasn't as good as IntelliJ IDEA and just felt a little bit tacked on. Then again, that was a while ago, I don't doubt that progress is being made.
> For the most part, Eclipse has fallen into obscurity.
I guess it depends on the locale/company/environment?
In most conferences, online videos, as well as among the people I know personally, JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA for Java) seem to reign supreme: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
They have a community version, personally I pay for the Ultimate package of all the tools. They're slightly sluggish, want a lot of RAM, but the actual development experience and features make up for that.
I know that Eclipse is sometimes used more in an educational setting, however there are also both some specialized tools, as well as customized versions for something like working with Spring in the industry: https://spring.io/tools
In my experience, the idea behind the IDE is nice (a platform that you can install whatever you want on, entire language support packages, or specialized tool packages), but the execution falls short - sometimes it's unstable, other times it works slow and so on. That said, it's passable.
I would say that personally I'd almost prefer NetBeans to Eclipse, even after it was given over to the Apache Foundation, which have released a few versions since: https://netbeans.apache.org/
It seems to do less than either Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA do, but for general purpose Java editing and limited work with other stacks (PHP, webdev stuff, some C/C++) it is good and pleasant to use. However, if you have projects that get close to half a million lines of code, it does just kind of break and gets way slower than the alternatives. It still somehow feels more coherent than Eclipse to me, would pick it if IntelliJ IDEA didn't exist.
Some also try doing something like using Visual Studio Code with a Java plugin: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/java
That said, I only used that briefly when I needed something lightweight for a netbook of mine, the experience was somewhat underwhelming. The autocomplete or refactoring wasn't as good as IntelliJ IDEA and just felt a little bit tacked on. Then again, that was a while ago, I don't doubt that progress is being made.
because both parts of the expression are evaluated by the compiler and must be the same type, including the function's return type. This means we end up instantiating nonsense functions like readOneByte returning u16. Elsewhere in the same file, some should-be-impossible template instantiations have had to have their static_assert's removed, because C++ will instantiate them and then not insert any calls to them into the generated code. So one cannot use static_assert to say "If this is reachable, that's a bug, please fail compilation and return an error" because template instantiation does not imply reachability.
[0]: https://github.com/alichraghi/zort/blob/main/src/radix.zig#L...
Apologies, I accidentally confused matklad with jonas-schievink, a different r-a contributor that recently became a rust project alumni [1]. It seems matklad is still active on r-a.
[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/team/pull/931
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