Zig 0.3.0 Released

Re:Zig 0.3.0 Released by azhenley on Friday September 28, 2018 @11:19AM (#18094083)

Any particular reason why you chose Zig over Nim? Or Go or Crystal?

I've been trying out all of these languages but haven't decided which one to dive into completely.

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Re:Zig 0.3.0 Released by TurboHaskal on Friday September 28, 2018 @11:25AM (#18094143)

Nim, Go and Crystal are garbage collected.

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Re:Zig 0.3.0 Released by dom96 on Friday September 28, 2018 @12:22PM (#18094625)

Nim has a soft real-time GC designed for game development. https://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html

I'd also be curious why the OP decided not to use Rust.

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Re:Zig 0.3.0 Released by eggy on Friday September 28, 2018 @11:55AM (#18094418)

I tried, and really liked Nim, and I believe the custom GC settings would allow for game dev for the types of games I try and make, however, I am biased against the sort of Python syntax and prefer Lisps or standard C-style syntax. This is totally subjective. I can't speak to Go or Crystal, although Go looks like C to me!

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