Simon Brooke3d ago

OK, so, #Zig language 'has breaking changes in most versions'. A project (of someone else's) that is only six months old no longer builds.

There's a lot that I like about the language, if it was stable it would definitely be a good choice; but I don't think it is something I can use to build a long term project yet.

I really dislike C, but, it works, it's stable, all the tooling is 30+ years old, it isn't going to change much.

Or I could just pick one Zig version and never upgrade...

Show threadCraig Brozefsky3d ago
@simon_brooke #nim perhaps? Your lispy predilections may be piqued, provided the Python whitespace perversions don’t piss you off.
Show threadSimon Brooke

@craigbro Yeah, not going there.

I'm a snob.

Mar 23 at 11:20pmWeb
Show threadSimon Brooke3d ago

@craigbro H'mmm... possibly too hasty a judgement. Yes, it has #Python like syntax (seriously, who would even do that?), but the underlying concepts look interesting. I might evaluate further.

I mean, I could wrap a preprocessor around it so I could write a #Lisp like syntax, and that would be usable.

Show threadCraig Brozefsky2d ago
@simon_brooke I don't know what to make of it either, it's like some form of outsider art.