Zig 0.14.0 Release Notes

cztomsik 1 year ago |

Thank you, so many great features. My personal favorite is .declLiteral() syntax, which makes webserver route-configuration very easy and readable!

If you are ever in temptation to do a builder for internal DSL, .declLiteral() might be a better way. I think it might be very cool for GUI structures too.

I did a quick PoC for SQL query building, but unfortunately, any more advanced queries are better to copy & serialize their arguments for safety reasons, so not that useful there, but still, very hyped about this particular thing.

cassepipe 1 year ago | |

https://ziglang.org/download/0.14.0/release-notes.html#Decl-...

There's something weird about the example that's being given. Coming from C it feels like I am making my struct much bigger... But is it implemented as a pointer to another struct ?

gwenzek 1 year ago |

Really liking the promotion of "Unmanaged" containers. It's the ones I'm using everywhere already

nesarkvechnep 1 year ago |

I really wish FreeBSD were a tier 1 OS.

alexrp 1 year ago | |

We're probably going to add support for cross-compiling FreeBSD's libc in the near future (and I imagine the other BSDs as well). From there, I think the only blocker for Tier 1 is getting it built and tested in CI.

overflyer 1 year ago |

Please do a release party!!! The last one was so much fun! _

vitaminCPP 1 year ago |

Great work on the self-hosted (no llvm) compiler and linker !

Is there somebody that can explain to me the value of incremental compilation?

How is this different than CMake caching, for example?

squeek502 1 year ago | |

My understanding is that Zig's incremental compilation will work on a much more granular level (i.e. functions, etc), so, for example, change one function and only that function (and its dependencies) will get recompiled/relinked (there's some linker trickery involved to avoid needing to relink everything IIUC).

More details here: https://ziggit.dev/t/how-zig-incremental-compilation-is-impl...

robinei 1 year ago | | |

Why would the function's dependencies need recompilation? I guess the dependees may require it, if they inlined it, or if the signature changed.

squeek502 1 year ago | | |

I'm probably not describing it fully accurately. See the link for the proper explanation.

vitaminCPP 1 year ago | | |

Thanks for sharing !

overflyer 1 year ago |

What's the state of async/await by the way?

robinei 1 year ago | |

Cut for the foreseeable future AFAIK. They may return to it when ready

ksec 1 year ago | | |

Nice

overflyer 1 year ago | | |

Thanks!

fithisux 1 year ago |

No haiku-os :-(

alexrp 1 year ago | |

Hm, I didn't think to add Haiku to the support table. It's probably Tier 3; the standard library support is minimal, and we don't support cross-compiling its libc. Patches definitely welcome.