Anonymous Structavaganza in Zig
16 days ago
- #Type Systems
- #Zig
- #Programming Languages
- C structs with different names are considered incompatible types.
- Zig structs are bound to their initial names and do not change with reassignment.
- Zig structs can introspect and reference their file of origin.
- Type constructors in Zig can create structurally equivalent types if they return the same struct literal.
- Default values in struct fields affect type equality in Zig.
- Zig may optimize type constructors that ignore parameters, leading to the same type.
- Zig's type system does not always recognize equivalent types if parameters are unused but present.
- Jai and Odin exhibit similar behavior to Zig in type construction and equality checks.