00:28 <unique_id> I really like doing "if (comptime expr)" instead of "if (expr)" to highlight the comptness of the branching when the if statement isn't top-level. It's awesome that I can just do that.

00:35 <unique_id> The branching is unecessary though. I have a field in a struct that's sometimes the void type, so I comptime branch to skip setting it, but I might just let the compiler remove the code instead! void is really cool

00:46 <scientes> unique_id, I agree, its like #ifdef HAVE_EXPR

03:54 <scientes> how do i zero-initialize something?

03:54 <scientes> *a struct

03:54 <scientes> is there a shortcut?

03:55 <scientes> nvm

05:25 <kristate> scientes: var s: myStruct = undefined;

10:43 <unique_id> kristate: that does not zero initialize the struct. It doesn't initialize it to anything.

10:46 <unique_id> scientes: I know you said nvm but just in case... You'll have to do "= undefined" and then @memset(...) or maybe there's some std function as well.

10:49 <MajorLag> There is no simple way to zero initialize a struct. I wrote a computime utility function for it: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/m6rGQqRkgV/

10:55 <unique_id> cool, and I just noticed that @memset isn't recommended. A for loop is better like you did.

16:22 <kristate> hi back online

19:59 <hooo> how long until 1.0?

20:52 <andrewrk> hooo, 2 years

20:52 <andrewrk> I'm streaming in 8 minutes: https://www.twitch.tv/andrewrok

20:57 <unique_id> excellent

23:48 <unique_id> andrewrk: Do you not want to start with OpenGL and then you or others can port later to vulkan? It seems like vulkan could be an enormous distraction and could also cause streaming problems. Even with validation layers you could have issues with your system becoming unresponsive / it being difficult to shut down your program. Vulkan is also so low level that it might not make sense for 99% of the apps to write directly in vulkan.

23:50 <unique_id> Take a look at https://github.com/floooh/sokol - It supports metal and d3d11 but not d3d12 and vulkan yet. You could think of Vulkan as requiring half the driver to be in your application but it hardly makes sense to repeat that work for each application

23:50 <unique_id> so something like sokol might be ideal in the future

23:51 <unique_id> The guy that wrote sokol wrote an interesting post about "One Year of C" (having been a C++ programmer). Notice a pattern? :) - http://floooh.github.io/2018/06/02/one-year-of-c.html