top | item 47014854 (no title) maleldil | 15 days ago They just did a massive reactor that broke nearly 100% of existing code. Only an early language can do that. discuss order hn newest unknown|15 days ago [deleted] pmarreck|15 days ago What version are you referring to? I've had zero issues updating my zig stuff to 0.15.2 with frontier LLM assistance. kccqzy|15 days ago I’ll use Ghostty as an example because that’s the only software I use that I know is written in Zig. It’s also a moderately complex project not a toy project.Its Zig 0.15 effort started in August and was only complete in October (see first PR at https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/8372). And many issues were encountered and solved along the way. And of course during all of this they also encountered an issue in Zig itself: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/24627 maleldil|15 days ago The huge change that will be passing Io objects around like you have with Allocator. the_mitsuhiko|15 days ago 0.16 changes things around dramatically. load replies (1)
pmarreck|15 days ago What version are you referring to? I've had zero issues updating my zig stuff to 0.15.2 with frontier LLM assistance. kccqzy|15 days ago I’ll use Ghostty as an example because that’s the only software I use that I know is written in Zig. It’s also a moderately complex project not a toy project.Its Zig 0.15 effort started in August and was only complete in October (see first PR at https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/8372). And many issues were encountered and solved along the way. And of course during all of this they also encountered an issue in Zig itself: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/24627 maleldil|15 days ago The huge change that will be passing Io objects around like you have with Allocator. the_mitsuhiko|15 days ago 0.16 changes things around dramatically. load replies (1)
kccqzy|15 days ago I’ll use Ghostty as an example because that’s the only software I use that I know is written in Zig. It’s also a moderately complex project not a toy project.Its Zig 0.15 effort started in August and was only complete in October (see first PR at https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/8372). And many issues were encountered and solved along the way. And of course during all of this they also encountered an issue in Zig itself: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/24627
maleldil|15 days ago The huge change that will be passing Io objects around like you have with Allocator.
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kccqzy|15 days ago
Its Zig 0.15 effort started in August and was only complete in October (see first PR at https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/8372). And many issues were encountered and solved along the way. And of course during all of this they also encountered an issue in Zig itself: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/24627
maleldil|15 days ago
the_mitsuhiko|15 days ago