Basic MetaProgramming in Zig

https://www.openmymind.net/Basic-MetaProgramming-in-Zig/

by nalgeon • 2 years ago

104 7 2 years ago

That was an interesting blog post, hope we will get more intermediate and advance zig usage blog posts and in the future books about zig.

anonymoushn• 2 years ago

The language is deliberately pretty small. "Advanced usage" will tend to have to do with the problem domain and solution architecture rather than with the language.

pjmlp2• 2 years ago

Having seen some strange things done with C, on multiprocessor infrastructure using shared memory alongside home grown RPC framework with handles instead of pointers, or regular demoscene stuff, there is enough room for creative advanced usage even with small languages.

fithisux• 2 years ago

I like that. Still they have some design issues.

dsp_person• 2 years ago

I wish there was a way to get Zig code out of comptime

I often just take an approach similar to cog [1], but it's simple enough I prefer to roll my own to do whatever code generation I'm wanting. E.g. write a ~100 line python file that reads source file(s), reads special comments with code gen or introspection instructions, and then insert generated code at some designated point(s).

[1] https://github.com/nedbat/cog

Basic MetaProgramming in Zig

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