Using Zig to provide stack traces on kernel panic on bare metal (2018)

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Ok, is it just me or is Andrew Kelley a one-person, prodigy coding machine? I’ve been following Zig’s development for a few years now and the technical wizardry he’s gone through to develop a powerful, innovative language that is self hosted, challenges all the new systems languages out there, compiles C and supports magical cross compilation is just mind blowing to me.

Thanks Andrew for pushing the boundaries and rethinking what can be possible with modern tooling.

I highly recommend people to watch his live streams. Excellent stuff.

> Thanks Andrew for pushing the boundaries and rethinking what can be possible with modern tooling.

Zig fails if you have carriage returns or tabs in your source

Is that a bug or a feature?

Depends on which side of the "tab vs spaces" debate you're on I'd think

(I'd personally consider it a bug to not be able to handle both)

Answered clearly here https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/FAQ#why-does-zig-force-m...

You mean an early prototype of the Zig compiler fails.

I would like to thank (and blame :p) you for the rabbit hole. I just had some ride between zig, foss funding, musl, and such. Andrew is truly doing some awesome work.

When I lived in New York, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity of hacking together pretty often. Seeing his intensity and dedication had a huge impact on me. Thanks Andy!

I once helped an engineer to bring up a custom board running an AMD 286 ... it had a strip of LED's which our boot loader would trigger at various points while it initialized the various bits.

No LED meant it was time to bring out the oscilloscope.

Needs [2018]

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