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iknowstuff
on March 16, 2024
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Zig, Rust, and Other Languages
Simple is a lie:
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-...
pepa65
on March 16, 2024
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OP is not talking about Golang.
iknowstuff
on March 16, 2024
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The same critique applies
pepa65
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So Zig is not simple but Rust is? The article you ref is not talking about Zig at all by the way.
iknowstuff
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It just illustrates the point. There is no elegance in simplicity. Zig is not memory safe and its functions „assume” utf8 with UB when they encounter invalid bytes.
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