templix

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by templix 2y ago
I'm 100% hooked on Zig, don't really wanna use another language anymore Reading other people's Zig code is usually a joy, as is writing it
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by templix 3y ago
Wasmer rubs me the wrong way for some reason Staying clear
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by templix 3y ago
The Zig article specifically says bug fix bounties are different.
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by templix 3y ago
> or needed maintainer time that wasn’t there That's my experience with bounties: someone does the job because they get paid, not because they have a particular interest in the issue, and then they instantly move on, leaving the sub
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by templix 3y ago
I ditched Rust a year ago in favor of Zig and have not regretted since Number of memory bugs in several fairly huge projects: 0 Zig is way more maintainable, leads to less code which translates to fewer bugs How about that?
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by templix 4y ago
Fun fact: There's been a number of spectacular memory safety bugs in Rust programs where you have no option but to go unsafe. Which, in real systems programming, is quite often... Zig is vastly safer than Rust unsafe. That's worth
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by templix 5y ago
> maybe you are just bad as a programmer (nothing wrong with that) This was actually my impression after reading the post. A bad programmer making a lot of ill-informed complaints. Zig is an unfinished low-level language. Not suitable fo
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by templix 5y ago
Seems like the author isn't used to low-level programming languages. Zig is a great C replacement.
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by templix 5y ago
Careful now. SVG uses a lot of XML features that goes beyond "basic XML parsing". To define a subset of SVG doesn't imply that simplifying the XML part is going to be easy.
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by templix 5y ago
> But to make a simple XML parser those are optional bits. Yes, but SVG requires a lot of those optional bits... A parser complex enough to deal with all the nooks and corners of SVG is not simple at all.
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by templix 5y ago
You enjoy writing Lisp, but somehow find parenthesis way too confusing when editing manually? That's pretty hilarious. If you take the expression above and format it in any half-decent editor, it's pretty clear. YAML is a shitshow
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by templix 5y ago
> So what's the deal? Are OP and me the only devs who have ever hit up against this issue in practice? The sad truth is that many issues go unreported because people are lazy and move on when they hit a roadblock. Also, I've se