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Re:Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust? by amluto on Friday January 15, 2021 @06:29PM (#25798046)
Have you ever used Boost?
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Re:Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust? by lttlrck on Friday January 15, 2021 @06:44PM (#25798193)
First thing that came to mind was Boost Spirit: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/libs/spirit/example/qi...

Lovely.

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Re:Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust? by codeflo on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:28PM (#25798560)
Ah, the memories: I once cut the compile time of a multi-million line C++ codebase by over 20%, just by removing one single-line use of Boost Spirit and replacing it with atoi.
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