Would it truly kill Zig to add native interface support ? All that ceremony is quite heavy and also somewhat error prone.
If nothing else, maybe they can add some helpers in the standard lib or codegen in the standard tooling to make stuff like this easier ? So one need not manually code all the function pointer types for methods and the dispatch in the interface type .
Yes, Zig is meant to be a low-level programming language, but stuff like this is basic table stakes nowadays. People will just make custom code generators after Zig 1.0 to do this exact thing - and they will likely be dozens of such custom code generators with subtle differences.
If nothing else, maybe they can add some helpers in the standard lib or codegen in the standard tooling to make stuff like this easier ? So one need not manually code all the function pointer types for methods and the dispatch in the interface type .
Yes, Zig is meant to be a low-level programming language, but stuff like this is basic table stakes nowadays. People will just make custom code generators after Zig 1.0 to do this exact thing - and they will likely be dozens of such custom code generators with subtle differences.