Comments by "" (@jwr6796) on "Developer Voices" channel.

  1. I LOVE the idea of Zig, comptime, and its C compilation superpowers... But I've bounced off it HARD twice as a Windows user because it requires workarounds on Windows for things that are fine on Linux and Mac, and that's at the learning stage -- examples in tutorials and documentation. I'm SO on-board when it's resolved those things.
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  2.  @rangargorgen  agree! Really appreciate how Kris probes into how things actually work, at a high enough level that I don't get bogged down with detail, but not so high that it's just buzzword soup.
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  3.  @mlugg5499  hey -- great work so far! Really very interested in Zig. I would need to dig back through what I was working on for details, and I'll try to do that and point to specific docs and guides soon, but my (faulty) memory says that it has to do with setting up a general allocator, and that I got a (very clear) error message saying that that manner of constructing an allocator was not available on Windows and it gave a specific alternative... which I then couldn't find documentation on and couldn't figure out by usage. My main worry was less that I couldn't build on Windows (happy to use Linux) and more that I might be developing on Linux in a way that wouldn't produce working binaries for Windows users. Grain of salt here -- I'm not a low-level dev and when I do dip my toes in those waters, it's with Rust, which is decidedly NOT low-level. 😂 I could be fundamentally misunderstanding how allocators are meant to work.
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  4. I'll also add that my experience with Bun (WSL only on Windows) might have colored my interpretation of the issues I was encountering. It feels like there is a general sense that Zig is not Windows-friendly, so some of that may be a marketing / documentation concern.
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  5. I work with mapping in my job. We use Mapbox, but the only way to do that on the web, Android, and iOS without writing three apps is to use the web version and shoehorn it into a webview. It's a bunch of gross hacks. So my interest is piqued.
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  6. I like the haircut
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  7. ​ @ITSecNEO Why? I'm interested in both languages, and it seems to me like Odin is more "here's everything you need to get started" and Zig is more "here is the simplest possible language, plus comptime." People who like Zig seem to be all-in on Zig, but they really feel like very different tools that appeal to different programmers, or at least different tasks. What makes you choose Zig?
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  8. I'm so used to hearing the name "Ginger Bill" at this point that it was jarring to hear him referred to as "Bill Hall." 😂 I don't know what I expected, that his surname was "Bill"???
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  9. Maybe I've not been subbed long enough, but this is the first tutorial/walthrough I've seen from you. I'd love to see some other topics!
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  10. Neglected the main purpose if my iriginal comment, which was to say: I love your style/qpproach in these more tutorial-centric videoa!
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  11.  @FarolTI-y6w  good to know.
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