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I've Been Laid Off. What Now?

Zig NixOS Ninja Build Meson CMake
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    Zig

    Zig is a general-purpose programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and maintainability.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Zig is the current language I have been using. It's a great systems-level language and is for the most part pretty relaxing to write in. It's not quite as complex as Rust, but it's a much different feeling. There's only so many people who write Zig, so sometimes getting better at it involves talking to others who also use it too. Sometimes you can even talk to the creator, Andrew Kelley, and he has a blog where he writes about Zig a lot, and goes to conferences to talk about software development as a whole spectrum.

    #Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 143 social mentions

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    25 Jun 2014 . All software components in NixOS are installed using the Nix package manager. Packages in Nix are defined using the nix language to create nix expressions.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Zig's potential is that it is pretty easy to write cross-platform code with it. Normally writing cross-platform code involves using a cross-compiler setup where you write code that targets another platform that's different than your host system. It requires using compilers that have ABIs of the target system, which is not something many have readily available. Sometimes you're often left having to do this yourself with Docker, or Nix, and other times you're going to have to use Ninja, Meson, or CMake to build out your applications create a lot of sketchy and weird build files.

    #Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Linux Tools 246 social mentions

  3. Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Zig's potential is that it is pretty easy to write cross-platform code with it. Normally writing cross-platform code involves using a cross-compiler setup where you write code that targets another platform that's different than your host system. It requires using compilers that have ABIs of the target system, which is not something many have readily available. Sometimes you're often left having to do this yourself with Docker, or Nix, and other times you're going to have to use Ninja, Meson, or CMake to build out your applications create a lot of sketchy and weird build files.

    #Front End Package Manager #JavaScript Package Manager #JS Build Tools 22 social mentions

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    Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast, and, even more importantly...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Zig's potential is that it is pretty easy to write cross-platform code with it. Normally writing cross-platform code involves using a cross-compiler setup where you write code that targets another platform that's different than your host system. It requires using compilers that have ABIs of the target system, which is not something many have readily available. Sometimes you're often left having to do this yourself with Docker, or Nix, and other times you're going to have to use Ninja, Meson, or CMake to build out your applications create a lot of sketchy and weird build files.

    #Front End Package Manager #JavaScript Package Manager #JS Build Tools 43 social mentions

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    CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software.
    Zig's potential is that it is pretty easy to write cross-platform code with it. Normally writing cross-platform code involves using a cross-compiler setup where you write code that targets another platform that's different than your host system. It requires using compilers that have ABIs of the target system, which is not something many have readily available. Sometimes you're often left having to do this yourself with Docker, or Nix, and other times you're going to have to use Ninja, Meson, or CMake to build out your applications create a lot of sketchy and weird build files.

    #Front End Package Manager #JavaScript Package Manager #JS Build Tools 51 social mentions

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