What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique?

Re:What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique? by gpderetta on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:51AM (#33107039)

C++ has been trying to get compile time introspection and synthesis into the language for a while. There is a proposal going slowly through standardization, but it is not yet know when it will be ready (I believe it missed 2 or more release trains already).

Circle, mentioned elsewhere, is a C++ dialect with fully working compile time metaprogramming.

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Re:What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique? by rurban on Thursday October 06, 2022 @10:03AM (#33108278)

C++ has only half of a fully working compile time metaprogramming. constexpr are limited, consteval, would be the full part, but is usually an error.

And the error handling is even only 10% working. clang is fine, gcc is broken for years.

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