First Impression on ilikeorangutans

Zig - First Impressions

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:50:27 -0400

I’ve been following the zig language for a while ever since I saw Andrew Kelly’s talk on Corecursive. The way Andrew describes the design of zig was very engrossing and who doesn’t like a language build for speed. But I have struggled with picking it up; time is in short supply and so were docs for zig when I first looked at it.

But that has changed; I finally found some motivation and ziglearn.org which is a good introduction to zig. I have only managed to read the first two chapters, much less understand them but it’s enough to be dangerous (to myself?).

First Impressions of Flutter

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:23:34 -0400

Google recently announced availability of 1.0 preview of Flutter, a new framework for building mobile apps, written from scratch with performance and beautiful UIs in mind. I’ve always been interested in building apps for mobile devices in general and Android in particular thanks to the number of Android devices I own, but was always discouraged by the complexity of building Android apps. I have one on the Android store that got too unwieldy to work on and I eventually had to cease development due to time constraints. Now with flutter closing in on its first release build I got interested, not only because it is a new beginning to building mobile apps – and we all know that developers love newly built things – but also because it uses Dart, Googles attempt to create a language to replace JavaScript that, sadly, went not far.

First impressions: Go

Tue, 12 Nov 2013 13:59:40 -0400

Ever since Google release Go I’ve been curious. Many good things were said and I always read bits and pieces here and there. Last week I decided to dive deeper and write some small things and get to know the language.

So far I’m really impressed. This is a quick list of things I’ve noticed:

Language

The go language is full of nice surprises. I haven’t seen everything, but just a few things that really impressed me: