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Zig is hard but worth it

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401 points signa11 | 1 comments | 01 Jun 23 10:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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jsheard ◴[01 Jun 23 12:51 UTC] No.36150389[source]▶
I get what Zig is going for in making all operations as explicit as possible, but I fear that it's going to turn away fields like graphics and game development where it would be a good fit except for the lack of operator overloading forcing you to go back to C-style math function spaghetti. It's all fun and games until what should be a straightforward math expression turns into 8 nested function calls.
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1. tuhats ◴[01 Jun 23 14:45 UTC] No.36151746[source]▶
I have played around with using @Vector for linear algebra.

This removes the need for operator overloading for a vector type, which covers most use cases of operator overloading and I often in fact think is the only legitimate use case.

I don't get to use `*` for matrix multiplication, but I have found I do not mind using a function for this.

I have only been playing with this in small toy programs that don't to much serious linear algebra and I haven't looked at the asm I am generating with this approach, but I have been enjoying it so far!