On: Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code

[Comevius]

Zig is warts-free C, but you can use them together. You can gradually refactor your C codebase, Zig can even transpile C. Zig is also a standalone C toolchain, compiling and cross-compiling C is a breeze with it, and it has it's own libc implementation.

[delphLonepaw → Comevius]

it does not have it's own implementation of libc, it just makes easier to work with implementations of libc and letting the cross compile, I think it was like that.

However a libc is a thing that zig probably wants and something I am also thinking on doing if I have the time

[pjmlp → Comevius]

It doesn't fix C flaws like use after free, hardly warts-free.

[Comevius → pjmlp]

That's not a C flaw, you can use an allocator that prevents use-after-free.

https://github.com/bwickman97/ffmalloc

The point of C and Zig is that they are low level and you can do whatever, like not use an allocator, or write an allocator.

[pjmlp → Comevius]

Just like C memory debuggers for the last 30 years, so what is the benefit?