Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video]

Re:Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video] by pron on Thursday August 27, 2020 @09:50AM (#24293655)

But to do that you can only use a subset of C++ (e.g. you can't use arrays nor pointer arithmetic). This works for all of Zig, except for some very specific, clearly marked, "unsafe" operations.

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Re:Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video] by TinkersW on Thursday August 27, 2020 @09:58AM (#24293757)

It works with arrays if you stick with std::array & std::span like constructs.

It also works with iterators-generally by sticking some extra data in the iterator in dev builds, so it can check for out of bounds access.

If I do have some code that uses C pointers + size, I'll insert some dev build assertions.

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Re:Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video] by pron on Thursday August 27, 2020 @10:05AM (#24293820)

Sure, and then when you enforce that you address the third most bothersome thing for me in C++, leaving you only with the top two (for me): a complex language and slow compilation.

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