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Zig is hard but worth it

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jsheard ◴[] 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. kapperchino ◴[] No.36151792[source]
For the math stuff you can do things like a builder pattern where you can flatten the nested functions. But operator overloading is definitely preferred