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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-03-19 15:58:09

OK, #Zig language looks usable, but it's going to be a learning curve, and I don't think auto-translating my existing C code to Zig is going to be either easy or worth doing, considering how dissatisfied I now am with both the design and the coding of the C code.
H'mmmm...

@epiceric@mastodon.xyz
2026-05-16 13:39:48

Jiacai Liu | My Thoughts on Bun's Rust Rewrite
#bun #zig

My Thoughts on Bun's Rust Rewrite
Before we discuss Rewrite Bun in Rust, there's something that needs to be said, because no one is saying it. Bun stands where it does today because of Zig. Jarred chose Zig back then not because it was "cool," but because Zig enabled a small team to rapidly prototype a high-performance JS runtime without a GC, without a heavy runtime. Zig's low friction, direct memory manipulation, and straightforward C interop were the core reasons Bun could punch above its weight on performance with an extrem…

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-03-21 13:56:44

OK, #Zig language people, where's a good place online to ask dumb newbie questions about Zig?
What I'm thinking of trying to build as an experiment is this:
git.journeyman.cc/simon/post-s

paged space objects
Paged space objects will be a generalisation of cons space objects. A page — all pages will be of the same size — will comprise a header, followed by an array of objects. All the objects in a given page will be of the same size. The number of objects in a page is simply the number of ...

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-03-23 22:19:01

OK, so, #Zig language 'has breaking changes in most versions'. A project (of someone else's) that is only six months old no longer builds.
There's a lot that I like about the language, if it was stable it would definitely be a good choice; but I don't think it is something I can use to build a long term project yet.
I really dislike C, but, it works, it's stable, al…