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0 pointsmr_00ff002y ago0 comments

Sort of, although Zig certainly pushes itself towards the embedded world. I have tried Zig a bit and like it a lot, and I am sure it would be better for game dev than Rust, but I don't want to pass allocators around all day to all the objects in my game.

Go without GC is more like a Go and Zig baby.

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mholub2y ago· 2 in thread

nothing really prevents you from defining global allocator in Zig

and having explicit allocator in standard library is actually a good thing, cause it's quite a common case in game development to use arena allocators which are being freed once per frame - so you don't really need to reinvent your data structures in Zig

I do have some concerns about Zig because it also introduces some friction for correctness sake like requiring to always use all variables, explicit casts everywhere - I want some compiler toggle to disable all of that and focus on problem but unfortunately it's not there

I am playing with Zig now and haven't really formed my opinion about game development specifically but I like it a lot so far

throwawaymaths2y ago

To be fair though that sort of friction only affects things in the small. They can be annoying but you'll never have to refactor outside the scope of the friction itself.

In practice, it's only really a problem if you're doing codegen.

lr19702y ago

Zig is flexible. If you don't like global allocators or explicitly passing allocators, you can store pointer to the allocator in your object and it will be passed implicitly.

thegeekpirate2y ago

Odin is almost precisely that, and has many useful gamedev features and bindings.

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