Zig’s comptime feature gives a lot of the power of C++ templates. This makes it easier to implement a lot of libraries which are just a pain to do in plain C. Even seemingly simple things like a generic vector are annoying to do in C, unless you abandon type safety and just start passing pointers to void.
I believe Zig even has some libraries for doing more exotic things easily, such as converting between an array of structs and a struct of arrays (and back).
>Zig’s comptime feature gives a lot of the power of C++ templates. This makes it easier to implement a lot of libraries which are just a pain to do in plain C. Even seemingly simple things like a generic vector are annoying to do in C, unless you abandon type safety and just start passing pointers to void.
I get it, thanks. in C you have to cast everything to (void *) to do things like a generic vector.
>I believe Zig even has some libraries for doing more exotic things easily, such as converting between an array of structs and a struct of arrays (and back).
yes, iirc, there was a zig thread about this on hn recently.
Possibly your GP comment came across as a snarky attack because of the first sentence. It's clear that you didn't mean it that way, but there isn't enough information in "explanation needed, bro" to disambiguate your intent (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
nerdy langnoob or noobie langnerd here. not sure which is which, cuz my parsing skills are nearly zilch. ;)