How to create a stack

[vapid mist]

?

[hexed island]

std.ArrayList

[vapid mist]

Okay

@hexed island what is the difference between arraylist and arraylist aligned?

[runic isle]

ArrayListAligned lets you choose the alignment of the items within, ArrayList is an ArrayListAligned with the alignment being the natural alignment of the type

[vapid mist]

i dont understand can u explain with example?

[spiral field]

If you dont know what alignment is, you definitely dont need an ArraylisAligned

In general its very niche

[vapid mist]

in general we give ArrayList(u8) right?

then how we give for arraylist aligned ?

[spiral field]

If you want to know, id recommend reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_structure_alignment

[vapid mist]

alignment being how much space do i need to go forward to get other element?

[spiral field]

Same way
std.ArraylistAligned(u8, alignment_here)

[vapid mist]

ok

@spiral field So for our own data structures we need an alignment right to get next element we need to skip size of our struct ?

[lofty ice]

I like this one for explaining alignment https://developer.ibm.com/articles/pa-dalign/

[spiral field]

Interesting
Wikipedia is kinda my go to but that might be better i havent read it

[vapid mist]

But in C/C++ we dont talk about alignment right? Does it automatically manages the alignment?

[hexed island]

Depending on what you do in C/C++, you sometimes do talk about alignment

For many use-cases, it's handled for you, like in std.ArrayList

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/object

[vapid mist]

ok

[spiral field]

It manages it for you the same amount as zig does (natural alignment by default)
But the few times you do need to specify alignment manually, zig makes it much easier for you to do so since its part of the type and std is built around it