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by hryx 3y ago
As Andrew mentions in the post, even having a Twitter account was a source of stress. It's about more than just promoting his content. It's a feeling I can sympathize with. In 2009 I deleted my Facebook account (or "deactivat
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by hryx 3y ago
It might be rash if work had already started on it, but as with the other proposals on the issue tracker not labeled with "accepted", this is just a call for discussion and counter-proposals. At this point it's just the team
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by hryx 3y ago
Gotta love goofy stunts that take effort to make! A spiritually similar programming language that also screams a lot is ArnoldC: https://lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC/
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by hryx 4y ago
In general Zig foregoes syntactic sugar and requires implementing higher-level APIs by composing primitives. But a new language feature is a candidate when it solves a use case that can't otherwise be solved, or opens up a path to more
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by hryx 4y ago
I don't speak for Jarred or Andrew, but here is a recent exchange between them about this matter: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/14542#issuecomment-141... The tension is understandable: Zig is exp
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by hryx 4y ago
Same. My favorite geezer hacker/heist movie, Sneakers, drops a realistic San Francisco phone number (415 area code) near the end. I always wondered who would pick up if dialed...
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by hryx 4y ago
Not mentioned in the talk, among the onslaught of media and merchandise following the success of the game was "Q*bert's Quazy Questions". It was one of my most treasured books as a kid because of the cute illustrations and he
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by hryx 5y ago
For a fun surprise, view the HTML source of this page!
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by hryx 6y ago
Compiling to C source isn't planned for the reference Zig compiler, as far as I know. It's more interested in helping people moving people off of C (see `zig translate-c`). But for supporting more esoteric targets you might be int