How I Built Zig-SQLite

Re:How I Built Zig-SQLite by longrod on Friday May 27, 2022 @05:58AM (#31527769)

This looks really neat and handy especially the type annotations part. I always got frustrated when accidentally putting the wrong type into a column.

How's the Language Server support for this? Last time I tried ZLS, it was quite well rounded so I am curious to know if this type annotations would work with it or not. Would be really cool if they do.

I have never been able to fully adopt zig due to how frustrating working with strings is but I absolutely loved the comptime functionality.

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Re:How I Built Zig-SQLite by xmorse on Friday May 27, 2022 @06:04AM (#31527807)

ZLS currently does not run any comptime code as far as i know

It would be cool to have an official Zig language server that can do it

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Re:How I Built Zig-SQLite by Tiberium on Friday May 27, 2022 @06:07AM (#31527824)

I think the only real way you can run make a language server understand comptime code is using the compiler as a library, similar to how Nim does it - nimsuggest (the tool for autocompletion, definitions, etc) is basically the compiler itself with some nimsuggest-specific stuff, so it understand macros, templates, compile time code evaluation, etc.

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Re:How I Built Zig-SQLite by gpderetta on Friday May 27, 2022 @06:30AM (#31527957)

Isn't that's how most LSP servers are implemented? I'm only vaguely familiar with clangd.

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Re:How I Built Zig-SQLite by ranfdev on Friday May 27, 2022 @07:20PM (#31536045)

Yes. An LSP has to work along with the compiler, or it has to become an alternative compiler.

For example, from the article "Why LSP?" [1]

"It is known that compilers are complicated, and a language server is a compiler and then some."

[1]: https://matklad.github.io//2022/04/25/why-lsp.html

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Re:How I Built Zig-SQLite by carlhjerpe on Friday May 27, 2022 @08:37AM (#31528845)

It's moving in that direction, but far from all are based on their compiler still.

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Re:How I Built Zig-SQLite by Shadonototra on Friday May 27, 2022 @06:38AM (#31527986)

from what i understood, that is what they are planning to do, have an official built in language server

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Re:How I Built Zig-SQLite by Sphax on Friday May 27, 2022 @07:02AM (#31528137)

zls doesn't support this unfortunately. I don't know what the plans are for comptime support.

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