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n42
·19 dagen geleden·discuss
https://matklad.github.io/2025/08/09/zigs-lovely-syntax.html
n42
·vorige maand·discuss
I looked it up:

  The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball. They know that overstaying the festivities — that is, continuing to speculate in companies that have gigantic valuations relative to the cash they are likely to generate in the future — will eventually bring on pumpkins and mice. But they nevertheless hate to miss a single minute of what is one helluva party. Therefore, the giddy participants all plan to leave just seconds before midnight. There’s a problem, though: They are dancing in a room in which the clocks have no hands.
n42
·vorige maand·discuss
you do not sacrifice memory safety. you sacrifice a compiler ensuring that code is memory safe by it enforcing one quite opinionated approach to it: RAII and lifetime analysis.

you seem to think there is one path to memory safety. there is not. unsurprisingly, some programmers may need different tools when working with a different set of requirements.
n42
·vorige maand·discuss
Not if choosing statically checked memory safety sacrifices for correctness where it is a local optimum
n42
·vorige maand·discuss


  No ___, no ____. Just _____
or using "honest" to describe an approach.
n42
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Quality over quantity
n42
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
I have no idea why I am responding to someone who flippantly uses a phrase like "dilittante mindset", but here we go

there is definitely a tendency for noobs and amateurs in any hobby or industry to obsess over expensive gear and things that don't matter (I love the term "buyhard" for it). you're out of your mind if you think the professionals in literally any industry do not discuss the specific technical tradeoffs of tools they are using among themselves.
n42
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
"some of the newer ideas happening in this space are in the GNOME OS project and the KDE Linux project"
n42
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
If I am remembering correctly, there was a moment where Garry was seriously considering using Squirrel instead of Lua. I think he experimented with JavaScript too.

I’m not sure it’s still the case but he modified Lua to be zero indexed and some other tweaks because they annoyed him so much, so it’s possible if you learned GMod Lua you learned Garry’s Lua.

Of course his heart has been with C# for many years now.
n42
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
Don't engage with this guy, he shows up in every one of these threads to pattern match back to his heyday without considering any of the nuance of what is actually different this time.
n42
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
I can see how you would have read it that way, now, but yes — I meant this article is defensive for no reason while being uninformed
n42
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
As a fan and user of Zig I found the original post embarrassing, but chalked it up to the enthusiasm of a new user discovering the joy of something that clicked for them

Taking offense to that enthusiasm and generating this weirdly defensive and uninformed take is something else, though
n42
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
It’s hard to see this article as being written in good faith. We’re at the point that we are responding to low quality LLM outputs with low quality LLM retorts and voting them both to the front page because of feelings.
n42
·9 maanden geleden·discuss
I stopped using Rust because of this. I spent more time learning and cursing at other people’s abstractions versus thinking about what the computer is doing.

> the ones who’d use Zig if it weren’t allergic to syntactic sugar

You’re very close to understanding why some people prefer Zig. There is a correlation between language design and how things are built with it.
n42
·10 maanden geleden·discuss
One that I know of is https://timetree.org/