Ralph Caraveo @deckarep

Software Engineer - likes Go, Rust, C#, C, Javascript, Python and love Zig! Tic-tacs are my fav mints! github.com/deckarep Los Angeles, CA Joined June 2008

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Ralph Caraveo @deckarep

7 months ago

Show me an image of an image of the #Zig #Ziglang iguana.

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#spacequest #sierraonline Here's a low-res rough-draft preview of a fully recreated vectorized merchandise patch that Sierra Online released years ago. This is a non-final preview. Original patch is here: sierrachest.com/index.php?a=me…

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Ralph Caraveo @deckarep

8 months ago

Here’s a tip: another way to detect memory leaks on MacOS in #ziglang #zig is to use the C-based allocator with the “leaks” command line tool. This is a nice alternative to Valgrind.

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Ralph Caraveo @deckarep

9 months ago

Fun holiday project: Dr. Sbaitso: Reborn - the #ai #chatbot from the early 90's lives again on Desktop! Built with #raylib and #ziglang. #retrogaming #crt #shader #retrocomputing github.com/deckarep/DrSba…

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Ralph Caraveo @deckarep

10 months ago

Unfortunately, no one can be told what the #matrix New theme in the words for the Zigualizer project: github.com/deckarep/zigua… #zig #ziglang #raylib Raylib 5.5

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Zig Weekly @ZigDiscussions

10 months ago

Zigualizer: A music visualizer built with Zig, powered by the FFT algorithm. github.com/deckarep/zigua… Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://gith… #programming #ziglang by @deckarep

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Ralph Caraveo @deckarep

10 months ago

The GeneralPurposeAllocator in the #zig #ziglang stdlib makes it fun to find and fix memory leaks. I was able to find and fix at least 7 big leaks in my port of DungeonRush to the Zig language: github.com/deckarep/dunge…

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Ralph Caraveo @deckarep

11 months ago

I rewrote DungeonRush in #zig #ziglang and it clocks in loosely at 5k lines of code. Ported from the original C-based version. Get it while it’s hot: github.com/deckarep/dunge… - will write a blog about the experience. #sdl #retro #gameprogramming

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a year ago

This month's book *giveaway* is @davidcrookes' "Code the Classics." (Vol.1) The book tells not only stories of some of the classic video games of the 70s & 80s but also shows you how to code your own Python games inspired by them. [Simply retweet this post to enter the draw] 🙂

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Ralph Caraveo @deckarep

a year ago

Silly @OpenAI #ai #chatgpt - everyone knows you can't return a pointer to a stack allocated variable. I feel bad for n00b coders.

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Ralph Caraveo @deckarep

a year ago

Gee I wonder: Can #ziglang compile regular #zig code to interop with #objective-c and interop with raw C code hooking into #raylib? Yes, yes it all works! Here's a demo running Raylib in a #cocoa app manually bootstrapping #opengl. Zig is nuts.

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Ralph Caraveo @deckarep

a year ago

Hello, #zig #ziglang community, the popular #golang Set that I maintain gets a sibling project: github.com/deckarep/zigla… Ziglang-Set: a generic and general-purpose Set implementation for Zig as a module. Built on top of the Zig stdlib and offering an idiomatic API for Zig 0.12.

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Ralph Caraveo @deckarep

a year ago

Improved Bunnymark benchmark - the coroutine spawn logic is moved at the start of the app with each coro in suspended state. User clicks; coros are resumed *eventually*. This now scales linearly == buttery smooth barfing of bunnies! #zig #raylib #coroutine #gamedev

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Ralph Caraveo @deckarep

a year ago

Here's a fun alignment bug that I got tripped on when compiling a #C library with #zig #ziglang. Zig was kind enough to throw a runtime error on some undefined behavior! github.com/tidwall/neco/i… #programming #Clang #alignment #tableflip

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Ralph Caraveo @deckarep

a year ago

Can you do true #coroutines in #raylib and #zig? Yes, yes you can...a demo showing 10's of thousands running at 60fps with not a native OS thread in sight using the neco project! Bunnymark code: github.com/deckarep/zig-n… #ziglang #gamedevelopment /cc @tidwall, @raysan5

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Ralph Caraveo @deckarep

a year ago

Listening to an older @joeroganhq podcast and @ID_AA_Carmack at one point says: “popping a couple off the stack there…back to Blue Origin”. I thought that was a clever metaphor to return to the previous conversation. Brilliant.