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by eska 43 days ago
Sounds like you would appreciate this talk: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wo84LFzx5nI&pp=ygUSVGhlIGJpZyB...

Personally I use C or something, anything other than C++ really, if I need something more ergonomic or provably correct. Many excuse C++’s design history with “they didn’t know better”, but the oft forgotten history explained in that video shows otherwise.
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tombert 43 days ago
I haven't played with Zig yet, but it does look like what I want C++ to be; something unapologetically low level but given some high-level constructs for safety and ergonomics. I haven't had a huge impetus to learn it because Rust has been happily occupying that space for me but it certainly can't hurt to play with Zig.

I should write an Ffmpeg codec with it or something this weekend to try it out.

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sufficientsoup 43 days ago
I've been having fun trying out Zig recently; would recommend. FYI that they released a big batch of API changes in April (version 0.16.0) so be mindful of learning from old resources.
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