Zig's New Relationship with LLVM

Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by gravitas on Monday September 28, 2020 @10:04AM (#24616699)

Thank you (for both replies) and to everyone else, this makes it crystal clear what's going on - there's a lack of "hey everyone, this is very unstable at the moment and the basic internals are changing, using anything except the latest Github builds is highly discouraged" which might really help when added to the various places above.

I'm a toe-dipper -- I need to run and play with some sample code (basic Hello, World stuff) to see if I like the ergonomics and wish to continue looking deeper, when an article is posted on HN and piques my interest to go try out (zig) the easy route is taken - install what Arch has as the latest and just test it out with the basics. ("The learn guide says I must have 4 spaces, what if I use 2? yeah OK that still works")

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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by kristoff_it on Monday September 28, 2020 @10:20AM (#24616858)

I think your point was fair and your approach is just as well. The reality is that we don't have a gigantic amount of resources right now. We don't have Google or Mozzilla backing the project, so most information out there is contributed by community members on their free time.

Take a look at other content by Andrew (https://andrewkelley.me) or from Zig SHOWTIME if you want to lazily evaluate Zig :)

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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by minxomat on Monday September 28, 2020 @12:32PM (#24618419)

For a while there was a link to TIO (tio.run) on the zig homepage where you could play with it online. But for some reason it has been removed.

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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by sobeston on Monday September 28, 2020 @02:39PM (#24619906)

The version that tio has is very old at this point. Godbolt stays up to date.

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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by minxomat on Monday September 28, 2020 @07:11PM (#24622239)

There wasn't any incentive to update it once Zig removed it from the homepage.

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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by dang on Monday September 28, 2020 @07:39PM (#24622491)

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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by gravitas on Monday September 28, 2020 @05:46PM (#24621558)

This reply is rude and uncalled for, you created an account 28 minutes ago just to act like a condescending jerk?

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