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Comment by 🐐 drh3xx

Re: "Zig and Vlang?"

In: s/OpenBSD

@jeang3nie yeah I can use const; the (admittedly only potential) problems are when you forget to use const and then either yourself or a contributor change a var/pointer/etc... which should never have been changable. Imutability by default is just another nice safety net but not essential. The fact Zig has a nice built in test framework is a big plus for it. Defer is definately a nice addition to any language. I think I'm leaning more toward Zig even though it's going to need work on OpenBSD; I did spot the Capy UI toolkit which needs some work too but seems usable for basic GUI cross platform even now.

🐐 drh3xx [OP/mod]

2023-06-03 · 11 months ago

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🦀 jeang3nie · 2023-06-03 at 16:53:

@drh3xx capy is using gtk3 under the hood, but doesn't provide anywhere near the functionality of using gtk directly. I had hand written bindings to gtk3 and vte that were being used in Zterm, but I always knew that was a dead end. The best gtk path in Zig right now is zig-gobject. It's doing what I really should have done and using gobject-introspection to machine generate the zig bindings.

— https://github.com/ianprime0509/zig-gobject

🐐 drh3xx [OP/mod] · 2023-06-03 at 17:04:

@jeang3nie thanks for the link I'll check it out later.

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Zig and Vlang?

💬 drh3xx [mod] · 11 comments · 1 like · 2023-06-02 · 11 months ago