Pretty.c - Hackdot

Re:Pretty.c by mydriasis on Thursday October 24, 2024 @12:53AM (#41932032)

Wow, neat! The wildest part to me is

> And it’s backwards-compatible with C and all of its libraries!

I can't wait to give it a shot! This looks like a riot.

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Re:Pretty.c by geon on Thursday October 24, 2024 @02:42AM (#41932625)

Have you heard of Zig?

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Re:Pretty.c by oguz-ismail on Thursday October 24, 2024 @02:45AM (#41932644)

It requires a different compiler. This is just a collection of C preprocessor macros

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Re:Pretty.c by ptspts on Thursday October 24, 2024 @02:17PM (#41938081)

The Zig toolchain can compile both Zig and C.

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Re:Pretty.c by klardotsh on Thursday October 24, 2024 @02:41PM (#41938329)

Yes, but the Zig toolchain is not $YOUR_EXISTING_C_COMPILER_YOU_ALREADY_KNOW_AND_USE

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Re:Pretty.c by geon on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @08:20AM (#41983122)

It is, if you use clang.

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Re:Pretty.c by mydriasis on Friday October 25, 2024 @08:49AM (#41944736)

I hadn't yet, but it does look nice. I especially like that you can just say "defer deinit", that's really nice.

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