Zig's New Relationship with LLVM

Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by dasb on Monday September 28, 2020 @12:51PM (#24618656)

I want to like Zig, but I just hate the

    {var | const } identifier : type

syntax.

I know it's an extremely superficial observation, but it just doesn't feel good to me.

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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by degurechaff on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:50PM (#24619345)

many new language put type in last part of declaration. rust, go, typescript, and other

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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by samatman on Monday September 28, 2020 @04:55PM (#24621120)

Everything old is new again!

The style dates back to Pascal. I think it's better, personally, and that might be because Pascal was my first programming language, but I don't care, I'm just happy it's back in fashion.

As a side note, I was quite sure that it dated back to Algol 60, but looked it up for this comment, and nope! Type came before variable.

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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by AndyKelley on Monday September 28, 2020 @04:31PM (#24620928)

enjoy ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=880uR25pP5U

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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by higerordermap on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:29AM (#24624425)

I am a programmer and I make very scientific decisions. I don't like this language because syntax is not like C.

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