Comments by "" (@jwr6796) on "Zig as a Multi-OS Build System (with Loris Cro)" video.

  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.  @FarolTI-y6w  good to know.
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