Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
It's just that with C you can touch anything, and thus it is extreme levels fast discover how systems do when you poke them.
In kernel things are obviously different as there is just one thing your tickling ;-)
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@jarkko I'm a programmer newbie. Zig brings me further then C as Zig is easier for me. I didn't found many broken things tbh, maybe that's because I do fairly basic stuff. But with dvui I was also able to write some GUI.
Useful standard library, data structures, error handling, build system, crossplatform, memory checks. It will be even better for me with the new IO stuff coming up. Then it might replace Go for me.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkkoand it is always good remind oneself that fancy code has zero effect on user experience. and user experience is really everything. so it's IMHO best to "just do something" never mind the too. that's sort of at least my philosophy overall.
even when developing a driver and low-level daemon, only end users define what is great and what is not that great. e.g. better error recovery, failure tolerance etc. map directly to the reporting capabilities on what can be reasonably represented to the user.
users neither base their choices based on how seasoned the developer (or company) is. over-analysing your "level" in any creative or further artistic work is a disease and it helps to recognize this fact.
in music there's of course like spotify shit tracks but there's also like super skilled music which sounds so fucking horrible that you wish you were dead (yngwie malmsteen for one but not mentioning any names here).
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@jarkko Fair point, but I don't agree with all of it.
Users don't care about error handling, but good error handling, will result in better software for users. Fewer bugs, no segfaults etc. I already rewrote one of my tools I wrote in C (as C n00b) in Zig and it's a better user experience, cause Zig helps me better with memory then C does, which means no segfaults anymore. Crossplatform compilation and binaries. That's a better user experience.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
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