crowhack's comments

True, there are not many (or any) that will be as profitable but some still exist such as ergo, https://ergoplatform.org/en/get-erg/#Mining .

Cool trick, I did not know this, but it makes sense.

"I have to carefully make sure that each resource has been freed/closed (but not too soon!)"

You can use defer keyword to free right after allocating and it won't be called until the function/program completes. You can use debug or testing allocators to ensure no memory is left unfree'd or double free'd. The std lib has a large selection of custom allocators that you can use depending on your needs. One great one is an "Arena Allocator" which is just a linked-list of allocations that can be free'd at one time, versus tracking all these individual allocations. And if none of these allocators fit your needs, the interface to define one is pretty easy to implement. https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.7.1/#Choosing-an-Allocat...

"I'm not mutating or holding onto anything I'm not meant to"

Not really sure Zig can help you with this one. With great power comes great responsibility, or something like that.

"that I've accounted for every exception that I can result from a given call"

Zig does not have exceptions, but it does have error types which functions can return. From the function definition you usually can determine all the errors that can possibly be returned, unless the function definer use'd the catch all ! error type. Regardless, it is still much better than regular exceptions because

- you know by the function def that an error could be thrown, the compiler forces the caller to account for a possible error by "unwrapping" the return value

- an error happening just passes back a different type to the caller and in combination with the above, you can never "miss" an error https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.7.1/#Errors

Also Zig switch statements without an else ensure you handle every possible value so if you forget to handle one possible error (based on the type), it will throw a compile error. https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.7.1/#toc-Exhaustive-Swit...

Check out the Zig standard library and the tests for examples on doing some basic stuff with the language. Tests are generally at the end of files, you can search for "test".

0.5.0 Documentation https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.5.0/#Introduction

root std library https://github.com/ziglang/zig/tree/master/lib/std

examples of writing and reading to a file https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/event/fs....

There are also a ton of projects that the creator has done with Zig, you can check those out for more examples as well.

https://github.com/andrewrk?utf8=%E2%9C%93&tab=repositories&...

Looks like he has an advent of code repo too.

Yeah that's true but I disagree it's a good idea. Most AAA shops still use non-GC languages because they need the full control/cannot waste ms on random GC pass.

Thanks for this link.

How low latency are we talkin? 1ms , 10ms ?

Rendering text at 60fps is a far cry from rendering a dynamic scene at 60fps.

Any examples of this being used for something non-trivial? I'm generally curious because I figured Golang would be a no-go due to the GC...

small world. im happy Clements is still teaching! his programming languages course with Racket was my one of my favorites.

What exactly is this? A chip you put in your wrist? A contact lens?

Yeah won't even open the tables for me, and wow 38.1kb.

I've been looking for an excuse for more C programming and less web dev. This seems like a great learning experience. Can't wait to start this!

Enjoyed this :)

Looks great. Probably too many features for my taste, as I deal with enough social networks in my life.

For the past couple years I've been using http://www.backloggery.com/ to keep track of what I am playing.

ahahahahahAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I can't fully understand why I find this so funny but I am just falling out of my seat laughing.

While I find this extremely comical, I am excited to see the consequences of this for desktop linux. The way I see it, the more people who use linux the better it will become :).

they actually ported it to linux, let me find it for you.

edit: here it is http://lifehacker.com/5963726/netflix-finally-comes-to-ubunt...

I had the same problem with my blu-ray player. I had to go online and add it to my instant queue. Then I was able to access it on blu-ray player through my queue. I don't know why it doesn't show up on other interfaces besides web. Anyone else having this problem with other interfaces besides blu-ray and apple tv?

I really enjoyed the first 2 episodes. I wasn't sold after the first episode but after the 2nd I became a fan. The character development and pacing is great. It has this sense of foreboding and everything is always moving quickly. Since they expect you to binge watch there are no catch ups. If you're a fan of breaking bad you'll love house of cards.

This looks awesome! Now to read about compilers....

If the search results just went to the side I think I would have enjoyed it more. Still fun but with constant break in the action it becomes annoying :/

Cool idea though!