Zig: a system language which prioritizes optimality, safety, and readability

Re:Zig: a system language which prioritizes optimality, safe... by fspeech on Monday August 29, 2016 @12:06AM (#12379952)

The first thing I would want to use something like this for is to write C API for a C++ library. Is that possible with the current state of Zig?

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Re:Zig: a system language which prioritizes optimality, safe... by AndyKelley on Monday August 29, 2016 @12:20AM (#12379990)

I think the best language to do that in is C++. You write a C .h file, and then a C++ .cpp file that implements the C functions using the C++ API.

Zig doesn't know how to use the C++ ABI. It's pretty complicated.

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Re:Zig: a system language which prioritizes optimality, safe... by fspeech on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:17AM (#12380521)

You are right that C++ methods need to be invoked in C++ code. However C container types are too weak/inconvenient to wrap C++ code. I am wondering if something like Zig can be used to create STL like containers that can be used at the API level?

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