12/28/2025 at 11:30:10 PM
by todsacerdoti
12/29/2025 at 1:29:03 AM
TIL: CVVDP is a full-reference video & image fidelity metric meant to simulate the human visual system to predict the perceived difference between two sources.by password4321
12/29/2025 at 8:08:16 AM
Interestingly it requires Zig to build. Is this becoming common for C libraries? I feel I’ve seen it a few times recently.by vintagedave
12/29/2025 at 9:08:04 AM
It uses zig as a build system instead of something like cmakeby ozgrakkurt
12/29/2025 at 9:44:18 AM
Why though? It seems simple enough that a makefile and perhaps a configure script would suffice.by oguz-ismail2
12/29/2025 at 11:09:49 AM
> makefile and perhaps a configure scriptThat's a lot to ask for on a non-UNIX system like Windows, and you still also need a C/C++ toolchain (which is typically provided by a Visual Studio installation, which has neither a compatible 'make' nor 'configure').
The next-best alternative would be cmake, but that's a complex boondoggle of its own.
PS: also the toplevel cmdline tool seems to be written in Zig, which might be more convenient than C just because of the Zig stdlib.
by flohofwoe
12/30/2025 at 1:06:14 AM
That's surprising to me because Meson/Ninja C project configuration is generally just a handful of lines of text and I can't imagine it getting much simpler than thatby greenavocado
12/29/2025 at 10:06:46 AM
Yeah this feels like it could be packed into a pair of .c source file and header.by ginko
12/29/2025 at 10:10:57 AM
It is just a tool so I guess they already know it and it is good enough.I also know zig build system really well but learning cmake now. I might have used zig too if I had to build something right now
by ozgrakkurt
12/29/2025 at 9:38:30 AM
Yuck.by wakawaka28