Writing a Wayland Compositor in Zig - Isaac Freund

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1_player · 2021-12 · Strong recommendation

Congratulations! And welcome Isaac, I loved his Zig+Wayland screencast [1], where he explained very engagingly how Zig is able to embrace and extend a pretty hairy C library and make it more memory safe, without forcing the implementor to rewrite or painfully try to bend it to the strict or idiosyncratic rules of the language, as it may happen with Rust or even Go. I can't wait for 1.0! Or at least until the docs are a bit more accessible... :) 1: [VIDEO]

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DyslexicAtheist · 2021-01 · Strong recommendation

this talk is phenomenal thank you. he explains (timestamp: [VIDEO] ) why he didn't go with Rust and it's quite puzzling what he says. I don't know enough about Rust if that's the case. To rephrase: "Rust was an obvious contender but it lacked good support for wlroots. there was a project which attempted to address this but they gave up after 12 months of work and 1000 commits. Rust's strong safety guarantees and memory management conflict with wlroots which assumes a longer lifetime of pointers. If you unplug your monitor with wlroots this pointer receives an event that means the output has disappeared and needs to be validated (see here [LINK] ).* This is strange because Rust positions itself as a system language so I'd have imagined these scenarios are all over the place and unsafe Rust would be the way most of this is solved?

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rmanolis · 2021-12 · Recommendation

Rust does not bind well with C for this reason it can not become a system level programming [LINK] However, there is another programming language that does not need bindings. It is called Zig and here it explains how it solves the same problem [VIDEO]

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