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Bart Louwers
@bart@floss.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

"Why we Built LightPanda in #Zig"

https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/why-we-built-lightpanda-in-zig

"Anyone who’s fought with #CMake or dealt with header file dependencies knows this pain. For a small team trying to move quickly, we didn’t want to waste time debugging build configuration issues."

They're building a browser. On top of V8.

You can't fool me, no programming language is going to make the build configuration pain go away. 😂

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Why We Built Lightpanda in Zig - Blog | Lightpanda

We chose Zig over C++ and Rust because we wanted a simple, modern systems language. Here's what we learned building a browser with it.
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