------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, June 21st, 2023 at 3:43 PM, Felix Lechner <felix.lech...@lease-up.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I declared Bug#60889, [1] which provides a Zig build system, as a > prerequisite for Bug#64208. [2] The latter packages two Zig > applications that use the build system in the former. > > One of the Zig applications is a new Wayland compositor called River. [3][4] > > The Debbugs change is not visible in Mumi, so a brief note here seemed > appropriate. The bug control system [5] has in fact many advanced > features that can help manage large numbers of bugs. Like most large > software projects, GNU Guix has a lot of open patches and bug reports. > > While I have everyone's attention, I'd also like to take the > opportunity to ask any available committers to please review the new > Zig build system. > > Zig is an exciting language. [6] Using strong but inferred types, it > brings many of Rust's ideas to a language that looks and compiles like > C yet feels like a script. I like GNU Guile much better but to this > author, Zig appears as a more natural evolution of the C ecosystem for > system-level programming than Golang. (I hope neither Rob Pike or Ken > Thompson take offense.) > > Most notably, the Zig tooling is super easy to use, especially for > wasm32-wasi. Please try it one day & thanks! > > Kind regards > Felix > > cc: Ekaitz > > [1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/60889 > [2] https://debbugs.gnu.org/64208 > [3] https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-intro/ > [4] https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/zig_wayland/ > [5] https://debbugs.gnu.org/server-control.html > [6] > https://www.infoworld.com/article/3689648/meet-the-zig-programming-language.html Thanks for the work on this, Felix. Looks like the build system was ready for production after all. Maybe a maintainer / commiter can take a look into this and guide us to the final inclusion in guix? Efraim, can you please take a look, this have been sitting for a while (half a year :( ) and it looks like it starts to have some interests. I'm not sure about the cross-compilation yet, even though I tried it and worked properly, but the native one seems to be ready. Also this might be a great opportunity. We can attract some people from the Zig community as they don't really have a Zig package manager yet (they are building one!) and Felix and I will push Guix a little bit in their community (right Felix? :)) Thanks all for your work. Ekaitz
