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> You need to link against the oldest glibc version that has all the symbols you need Or at least the oldest one made before glibc's latest backwards incompatible ABI break.

You shouldn't, cause it's wrong. libwayland is 40k lines of code. wlroots is 60k loc. And just to check, sway is about 49k loc.

I wouldn't call it "tragedy of the commons" because the very idea was coined as a strawman. As far as I'm concerned, the entire concept is a fallacy, and people should stop perpetu…

cake[0] might interest you. Basically transpiles C into C89. [0]: https://github.com/thradams/cake

As I understand it, WASM GC provides a number of low level primitives that are managed by the WASM host runtime, which would theoretically allow languages like Go or Python to slim…

I'm not who you were asking, but my only experiences with vlang was years ago when its marketing was making false claims about what its capabilities were, while pretending to be an…

There's no special tooling to catch this, because nobody catches an error with if-else—it's simply not idiomatic. Everyone uses switch statements in the catch block, and I've never…

> anti-Rust sentiment I have not seen much of any anti-Rust sentiment in the community. There's a lot of people in the community who do Rust, like rust, and work on rust projects. …

Qt has no official C bindings. This makes it difficult for a new language to write Qt bindings, unlike for GTK.

The negative aspects of Electron have little to nothing to do with CSS, and you're only invoking it here to poison the well by association.

> Linux is stupid and sucks. None of this is Linux's fault. I'd argue this is both C's and GNU's fault. The need for a copy of the library, seems to be just a tooling convention. G…

Zig has a couple of IR layers. Generally, Zig's compiler goes: AST → ZIR → AIR, and from there it'll either emit LLVM bitcode or one of its own, platform-specific "Machine IR"

Zig already has an Allocator interface that gets passed around, and the convention is that libraries don't select an Allocator. Only provide APIs that accept allocators. If there's…

Breaking changes is just another Tuesday for Zig.

I don't think SO's "canonical answer" concept really jives with a pre-1.0 language like Zig that is still in constant flux, regularly making breaking changes. One of the questions …

One idea is to include a bunch of nonsense text into webpages, and use CSS to hide it from browsers. Depending on how aggressively you want to do it, this may affect some accessibi…

Zig on Linux already directly interfaces with syscalls,[0] unless your library or application directly links libc. [0]: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/std/#std.os.linux

In Zig, the main function can return either a u8 or void (which always returns 0) or it can return an error union !void , where if you allow an error to bubble up to main, it'll pr…

> What prevents anyone from dedicating a Zig memory allocator to the job (and all of its subtasks), and simply freeing the entire allocator at the end of the job? No baby-sitting n…

Yes. In fact, Aro is already in the main Zig compiler's repo, although currently I don't think it actually does any compilation of C (unless you explicitly disable LLVM) and is mos…

> Is it still so after ditching LLVM? Zig hasn't ditched LLVM, nor does it really plan to. What's planned is for the main Zig executable to not directly depend on LLVM, that way co…

Yeah, LLVM is here to stay for Zig. The plan is to have a custom backend for fast Debug builds for use during development, while emitting LLVM bitcode for release builds that can t…

Does an ecosystem designed with custom allocators (including gc) in mind not count for anything?

It's called lobbying, and the courts consider it "free speech". Speech that says "I just spent a million dollars to inconvenience my competitors."

By convention, all Zig libraries have functions that take an allocator as input from the user. Your application can use libgc[1] and pass the allocator to any library function you …