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Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by ogogmad on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:16PM (#50486576)
Sure. But doesn't it still lack autodiff, quaternions, etc?
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Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by cornstalks on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:46PM (#50487934)
Yes, there are definitely other use cases that Zig doesn't support (which some may view as a good or bad thing). I just wanted to respond to the comment about basic SIMD since the example was U8x32 and operator+, which Zig can do.
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Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by Ygg2 on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:22PM (#50488441)
Point wasn't about SIMD, but defining my wrapper for it and giving it operations I needed.

Which seems to be something Zig can't do.

Hell, you can define operators for generic length SIMD lane.

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