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Show HN: Zedis – A Redis clone I'm writing in Zig

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135 points barddoo | 5 comments | 19 Sep 25 21:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.577s | source

Writing Redis from scratch in Zig.
1. maleldil ◴[20 Sep 25 01:59 UTC] No.45309397[source]▶
From the README:

> Memory safety with RAII patterns

I'm curious to see how they achieve RAII in Zig, which doesn't have destructors. If they mean defer + deinit methods, that's not the same thing.

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2. justinhj ◴[20 Sep 25 02:31 UTC] No.45309688[source]▶
Zig is all about making things explicit. Destructors are hidden code. I presume there will be an application level tracking of lifetime.
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3. ◴[20 Sep 25 05:01 UTC] No.45310538[source]▶
4. teo_zero ◴[20 Sep 25 05:40 UTC] No.45310719[source]▶
> If they mean defer + deinit methods, that's not the same thing.

No? It's the first thing that came to my mind when I've read RAII.

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5. rokob ◴[20 Sep 25 13:27 UTC] No.45313193[source]▶
You have to call defer after initialization so you can’t technically call it RAII. As long as you remember to call it then it is effectively the same. Personally defer makes it so very similar to be a difference without a distinction but the “is initialization” part can’t be true if you need to do a second step.