marler8997

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by marler8997 7mo ago
If you have a self-contained project, where you don't depend on anyone else and others don't depend on you, MinGW works great. Problems arise when you have dependencies that don't work with it. I'd love to see if MinGW c
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by marler8997 7mo ago
Wait till they find out what the Visual Studio Installer itself does :) I guess this person just trusts a big company like Microsoft who keeps their source hidden more than a single developer who publishes all their source?
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by marler8997 7mo ago
Yeah I noticed wine wasn't able to execute the MSI files. It also had a problem with the lock files. Both problems should be fixable though.
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by marler8997 10mo ago
None taken :) I think sharing our thoughts and discussing them is how we learn and grow. The best people in their craft are those who aren't afraid to put themselves out there, even if they're wrong, how else would you find out?
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by marler8997 10mo ago
I avoid using exceptions myself so I wouldn't be surprised if I misunderstand them :) I love to learn and welcome new knowledge and/or correction of misunderstandings if you have them. I'll add that inspiration for the articl
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by marler8997 10mo ago
"You can't handle all of them and you don't know which you'll get" is a great summary of the first two problems, and, this same problem also applies to Python. I'll add that these only start becoming an issue w
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by marler8997 10mo ago
It's a bit more than your typical "interop via C". With a "sized opaque" type you actually can stack allocate C++ values in Zig (and vice versa stack allocate Zig values in C++), i.e. fn stackExample() void {
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by marler8997 10mo ago
Yeah this is correct. You don't want to pass these values around "by value" but, you should be able to "embed them" and pass "pointers to them". It's a middle-ground between a completely opaque type
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by marler8997 1y ago
I checked the git history to see if you included the Zig version but looks like first revision is rust... In the Zig version did you use my zigwin32 project or did you go with something else? Also, how did you like the Zig build system vs r
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by marler8997 2y ago
Hope to be able to bring Linux back at some point. Unfortunately there wasn't enough users to justify spending development time on it. It's hard to tell if the user count was low because of lack of interest of issues with app itse
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by marler8997 2y ago
Here's an example: https://github.com/marler8997/zigup/blob/4d25c7e387a996c6b83...
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by marler8997 3y ago
Great game, cleverly demonstrates a fundamental problem with creating rules/laws. I've wondered if focusing on the goal/intent when creating rules would be more effective? For example, instead of just a rule that says "N
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by marler8997 4y ago
D's actually worse than Zig in regard to point 3. Kristoff's example demonstrates why. In D you would have to change the "if" to a "static if", D will always evaluate normal "if's" at runtime e