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Re:Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig by apta on Monday January 06, 2020 @09:49AM (#21969481)
I find Zig's approach to generics to be very cool. Types are a first class citizen, so you basically get generics out of the box. Combined with Zig's `comptime` makes for writing very cool code. This solves lot of things you'd need macros in other languages to do.
Re:Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig by jackhalford on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:25AM (#21969768)
this exactly, the language doesn't know about generics but having first class types + comptime allows you to do generics. Writing C feels like a chore now.