Surely Zig differentiates between, say, a function in a module, and a member on an object? Or are "modules" literally just instances of classes or something?
Surely Zig differentiates between, say, a function in a module, and a member on an object? Or are "modules" literally just instances of classes or something?
all structs are namespaces (there no classes). namespaces may contain declarations (consts and functions) or fields ("fields" are slightly different for unions or certain builtins like arrays and slices)
unions and enums also create namespaces. any @import creates a namespace that is a struct.
If a function's first argument is the type of the function's namespace or a pointer to the type of the namespace, you may (and by convention are encouraged to) use dot dereferencing (like python firso parameter self) as a lexical sugar to call the function with the "implicitly rearranged" first parameter ("oop style caling, but not really oop")
modules are somewhat different, in zig these are collections of code you can map to a non-filepath import string using the command line or build tool (in particular you may map something out of code root path), but these too ultimately become a namespace struct
No, they are the same.