probonopd

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything!

tl;dr: Wayland is not "the future", it is merely an incompatible alternative to the established standard with a different set of priorities and goals.

Wayland breaks everything! It is binary incompatible, provides no clear transition path with 1:1 replacements for everything in X11, and is even philosophically incompatible with X11. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating e

LewisGaul

Zig blog posts

This is intended as a place to list blog posts about Zig, for anyone who's interested in reading what people have to say! Also check out links at https://ziglang.org/learn/ and https://ziglang.org/news/.

Posts were found by searching on lobste.rs, at https://dev.to/t/zig and https://medium.com/tag/zig.

Please let me know in a comment if there are any posts missing that you'd like me to add here!

2021

doccaico

// Build: zig build-exe -O ReleaseFast --strip src/main.zig
// Run: zig build run -- -w 70 -h 40 -m "*" -s 0.07 -c 25
// Version: 0.10.0-dev.3475+b3d463c9e
// Date: 2022/08/09

const std = @import("std");
const fmt = std.fmt;
const mem = std.mem;
const os = std.os;

Tetralux

//
// A simple example of a calculator programming language, that compiles to native code!
//
// Written by Tetralux <tetraluxonpc@gmail.com>, 2023-03-09.
//
// Programs are a string that you pass as an argument in the form of a mathmetical expression.
// e.g: '10 + 4 - 1 + 7'.
// This program will generate some Zig code that computes the answer, and prints it to stdout.
// It then will invoke the Zig compiler as a subprocess to compile and run this program.
//

gingerBill

You appear to be advocating a new:
[ ] functional  [x] imperative  [ ] object-oriented  [x] procedural [ ] stack-based
[ ] "multi-paradigm"  [ ] lazy  [x] eager  [x] statically-typed  [ ] dynamically-typed
[ ] pure  [x] impure  [ ] non-hygienic  [ ] visual  [ ] beginner-friendly
[ ] non-programmer-friendly  [ ] completely incomprehensible
programming language.  Your language will not work.  Here is why it will not work.

You appear to believe that:
[ ] Syntax is what makes programming difficult
[ ] Garbage collection is free                [ ] Computers have infinite memory