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[Luke]

No It’s just as frustrating as always, because it’s a lot of line noise for something that disolves into “nothing” in the compiler output (e.g. at that point, it would be less work to write assembly code).

+1

@floooh

PS: I still have that old idea running around in my head that a modern and ‘explicit’ language should only have a single sign-agnostic 64-bit integer type for variables (e.g. similar to CPU registers), and explicit-width and signed-vs-unsigned integer types only for storage locations (e.g. structs mapped to memory). There’s a vast unexplored region of languages that sit below C and above assembly code

Before going to some extremes, I think it was mentioned that there are already some simplifications that could be done to ease up the burden of dealing with numbers.

• Eliminate @floatFromInt and allowing automatic coercion of integers to floats.
• Eliminate @intFromFloat with @ceil, @floor, @trunc and @round to coerce to integer values.
• Allow operation between floats and small integer types (https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/pulls/30921)

Probably some others.