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-* Chapter 1
-** 1.2.1
-- Built in build tool is nice
- - I have mixed feelings about the build tool taking in a build
- script, rather than using a toml/json/etc config file.
-** 1.2.2
-- Really like ~test~ as a keyword rather than a module. [[file:hello_world/src/main.zig::test "simple test" {][example]]
-** 1.2.3
-- Using a bang to indicate a possible exception is interesting. Not
- sure if I love it, will need to play with it, but it's certainly
- terse. [[file:hello_world/src/main.zig::fn testOne(context: void, smith: *std.testing.Smith) !void {][example]]
-- It is kinda neat that you can ~try~ without a follow up catch.
-** 1.2.4
-- Feels like a lot of commands to get a test. Gonna miss ~cargo run~.
-** 1.3
-- No thanks
- #+begin_quote
- I personally think that, the best way of reading Zig code is to read
- the source code of the Zig Standard Library.
- #+end_quote
-- zig.news being down is weird, wonder what happened there?
-** 1.4
-- Don't like that ~var~ is mutable by default. Really do prefer
- default immutability.
- - Yeah I know I can ~const~, but it's the principle.
-** 1.4.4
-- "you *must* mutate" feels like such a weird rule.
-** 1.4.6
-- Gonna be hard to go back to manually defining the size of
- arrays. ~[_]~ here I come.
-** 1.7
-- Labeled blocks are cool
-** 1.8
-- Woah, is that really what you have to do to write to ~stdout~?
- #+begin_src zig
- const std = @import("std");
-
- pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
- var stdout_buffer: [1024]u8 = undefined;
- var stdout_writer = std.Io.File.stdout().writer(init.io, &stdout_buffer);
- const stdout = &stdout_writer.interface;
- const string_object = "This is an example of string literal in Zig";
- try stdout.print("{d}\n", .{string_object.len});
- try stdout.flush();
- }
- #+end_src
-- Sentinel terminated arrays sound so academic. Given all the
- criticisms of how hard and complicated Rust is, with Zig as a
- frequent alternative, I am surprised to see how academic this feels.
-- Have feelings about the choice to use the word "America" as the katakana example:
- #+begin_quote
- In the example below, we loop through the japanese characters “アメリカ”.
- #+end_quote
-- Feel like it's strange to put the string library functions into the
- memory std lib... but I assume that's because they're not actually
- string specific?