For a while now I have been dabbling with zig and as a small test writing a NES-emulator (everyone should have written an 8-bit emulator in their life right?). While doing this I stumbled upon a kind of neat trick that you can do in zig that I thought was worth sharing… with kind of a “anti-climactic” end!

Some background

While writing some debug-tools I decided that I wanted to switch between ppu-palettes when displaying some data. At this time the available palettes were all described with an enum.

Hashing strings in c++ at compile time has been possible since c++11 but is it worth doing? Me and a few colleagues was discussed this over a few beers and it reminded me that I have already written about it here (8 years ago… ARGH I’m getting old!).

But a lot of time has passed since I wrote that… and I didn’t make any measurements in that article! shame! SHAME I SAY!

I’m not the one that tinkers a lot with my dev-environment but there are some tools and software that I need and find that they help a lot day to day. And since I like to read about what others use I might as well share some tips on tools that you might also like.

My day-to-day OS of choice at home is xubuntu and at work Windows.