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Zig too. But this is far from being mainstream. Rust took around 5 years I think to become accepted in major companies, and those languages are harder to justif
by afdbcreid 6d ago
Zig too. But this is far from being mainstream. Rust took around 5 years I think to become accepted in major companies, and those languages are harder to justify.
- zamalek 6d agoI've started distrusting anything good people have to say about Zig because of the wide variety of untrue claims made about it - unless those claims come from Andrew himself. Last time I was assured that compile-time memory guarantees were possible and were going to happen (they didn't: the recent announcement is runtime/debug assertions). Zig is still making massive breaking changes, and while that is not a bad thing, it makes it categorically _not_ production ready.
- pjmlp 6d agoAlso note that isn't much different from debug heap that MSCV was already having in 2000[0], assuming you didn't want to shell out some money to Insure++{1], BoundsChecker[2] and similar products. Or something like SoftBound, from 2009, https://llvm.org/pubs/2009-06-PLDI-SoftBound.pdf https://llvm.org/pubs/2009-06-PLDI-SoftBound.pdf It hasn't been for lack of choice. [0] - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/debug-versions-of-heap-allocation-functions?view=msvc-170 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/debu... [1] - https://www.parasoft.com/products/parasoft-insure/ https://www.parasoft.com/products/parasoft-insure/ [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoundsChecker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoundsChecker