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> "I don't like this attitude"

Cool, let me know when you have a rational counterargument then, some of us have gotten fed up with Rust (especially at scale) and are very much enjoying Zig (which has no magic, which turns out to be a huge advantage at scale)


"No borrow checker" id not a reason to switch to Zig, unless you have a reason that borrow checker is limiting you from developing, hence the "I don't like this attitude". Just give the reason, not the "solution"

Not to mention we're nitpicking over something that an LLM wrote.


There doesn't really need to be a counterargument. If you like Zig, that's great. Zig is great, you are great. You go on using it.

You should really make sure to take your own advice when you're being this discourteous.

Fair enough

Ok have fun. The rest of us are having no problems.

That must explain the projects moving away from Rust then

Dumb move. You cannot trust that they won't leak it anyway to make additional profit, since they're not accountable except to their made-up name.

I'm working on 3 apps (Zig core, C FFI, Windows/Mac frontends) that haven't been released yet.

One verifies the binary data of over 200+ common filetypes, to the extent possible.

Another protects data archives/data collections with some parity, in order to survive a degree of bitrot, for those files that you don't necessarily have on a NAS.

The third is a new kind of archiver that specializes in compressing files that are already internally compressed as part of their spec.

Trivia: Did you know that the now-most-common image format in the world, Apple's HEIC/HEIF, has absolutely NO internal integrity protection, and that you can't depend on a failed decode to detect errors since all binary values are allowed in the stream format?

https://mecha.llc/software/


There's already a product that does this lol

Aaaaand now I can't remember the name of it


Same reason Zig is great for LLM's

If you're going to go Haskell, why not go all the way to Lean 4 and get mathematical provability along with reasonable speed and type-safety?

Python also has a rather high number of footguns, which is not a feature of other equally-capable languages.


Exactly. Why would you not use the language at the pareto-optimal max for speed and restrictiveness, given the use-case?

Well, that was an unexpectedly emotional trip through most of my nerd life to date lol

For anyone who's a parent, their image model won't make ANY change to an image containing a child AT ALL, REGARDLESS OF REQUEST.

Consent, harassment between teens, etc. are the cited reasons, I guess.


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