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Now you've misquoted me. Actual quote[1] is: "This appears to be an outright fabrication." To quote yourself[2], "The honest thing to do is acknowledge that you were mistaken and a…

happy pride month

1. he's not a billionaire in large part due to giving away large amounts of wealth 2. would you rather allow a small number of people 10x more wealthy than Mitchell dictate our law…

If you decide to try this, feel free to share your progress and struggles on IRC, ziggit, or ZSF zulip. Plenty of people would be interested in helping out. Good luck and happy hac…

my implication is that you are projecting - believing that because something is true for you, it is therefore true for other people. zsf team is perfectly capable of implementing c…

First I was naive to believe I could make a new programming language, then I was naive to believe it would be anything but a toy project, then I was naive to believe that we could …

your links don't back up your claims

You know, I used to be annoyed by all your consistently shitty remarks in any zig related HN thread, but these days, it's refreshing to have an unpleasant interaction with a human.…

looks like llm written trash

it's crap. you all need to go outside

I used Node.js extensively for about a decade, both professionally and as a hobby. I don't buy the problem statement. These arguments don't even make sense, they look LLM generated…

Originally, Zig's type system was less disciplined in terms of the "zero" type (also known as "noreturn"). This was proposed, discussed, and accepted here: https://github.com/zigla…

It's not a great tip because there are features that exist specifically to reduce development iteration cycle latency without compiling for the wrong target. Please refer to https:…

I propose let's break up a bunch of these monopolies to give you and your colleagues more options, more competition for your resume.

invitation tree. lobste.rs already has it, works great.

bitpacked structs, good enums, arbitrary sized integers, optionals + non-nullable pointers, fast compiler, zig fmt, unit testing, ability to use standard library and the rest of th…

In Zig, error codes are fundamentally a control flow construct, not a reporting mechanism. The pattern here is to return something like error.Diagnostics for all errors that have b…

100% agreed.

HTTP client and server stay for sure.

flagged for being slop

As an example, a line that they don't cross, but a for-profit company absolutely would, is compromising the integrity of the encyclopedia articles. For example, a marketing departm…

I think you're letting pedantry hinder you from seeing a useful pattern.

No ads on Wikipedia tho, not even after 25 years.

I've always admired your work, Walter. Keep it up!