The #zig experiments continue, still very much liking it.
Dropping random C/C++ files in the build and having it just work is great.
Only minor issue I hit so far is missing syntax to make a slice from a single-item pointer (like slice::from_ref in Rust), but looks like this is getting fixed for 0.12 (https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16075). And can work around in 0.11 with some comptime trickery.
@sjb3d just so you know, you can do that in 0.11, it's just clunky - the coercion *T -> *[1]T is allowed, and of course *[1]T -> []T is too, it's just that coercability in Zig isn't quite transitive. So if you write @as@fosstodon.org(*[1]T, my_ptr) where a []T is expected it'll work!
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