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> But you cannot state that people are "welcome to engage and debate the idea on its merits" when that clearly isn't the case. I really didn't think that part had to be stated expl…

You don't need to be a Zig expert, but you do need to at least be invested in the Zig ecosystem in some way. I think it's reasonable for any open source project to only be interest…

The Zig issue tracker is for technical discussion; you are more than welcome to engage and debate the idea on its merits. But we do indeed delete meta-commentary, wild speculation,…

This is about a strictly-enforced form of run-time memory safety where there's no `unsafe` escape hatch that a careless programmer can misuse to undermine the memory safety mechani…

> I think the Zig people are really just concerned that maybe Zig itself is a DOA language because it doesn't offer enough over C for any serious use I promise you, hand on heart, …

> NT is optimized, since day one, to swap. I'm not sure what point you're making here. Did you assume we had the page file disabled or something? > This is a feature, not a bug. OO…

> Both Windows and macOS do so much better out of the box for essentially any workload. We test FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows in Zig's CI fleet. Of these, Win…

> Their CI instances are over provisioned and time-out I can't speak to their managed Jenkins offering, but FWIW, we've had no major trouble running Zig's CI on 3 s390x-linux VMs, …

I only started using GPD products with the Pocket 4, so unfortunately I can't speak to your experience with the Pocket 2. I certainly hope the battery doesn't degrade that fast on …

That's fair; the keyboard layouts are definitely an acquired taste. Not that I've quite acquired said taste myself... but for devices that I mainly use when traveling, I just don't…

Depends on what you're doing I suppose? I'm able to work on Zig with both of the devices I mentioned. Of course I'm limiting the test cases to the subset that's actually relevant t…

The CPU is just too underpowered; I'm sure it's fine for basic computery stuff, but building software and running medium/large test suites on it would be far too slow. Also not eno…

The Minibook X is obviously targeted at the netbook form factor in the traditional sense, i.e. small and cheap. If you're like me and appreciate the netbook/UMPC form factors (for …

I've experienced multiple instances where (so I heard; I don't use Windows) a Windows Update completely broke a game on Windows for everyone, but Wine/Proton kept running it just f…

> No shellcode decoding Can't speak to this as I don't RE for security purposes, but: > no plugin support and rather limited IR. this I'm profoundly confused by. BN has multiple IR…

Binary Ninja deserves a mention in these threads: https://binary.ninja I've used IDA, Ghidra, and Binary Ninja a lot over the years. At this point I much prefer Binary Ninja for th…

It sounds like you expected 1.0 stability from a language that isn't 1.0. > I thought it was stable enough initially but they completely broke fuzz testing feature and didn’t fix i…

Just on this point: > You mean like how Rust tried green threads pre-1.0? Rust gave up this one up because it made runtime too unwieldy for embedded devices. The idea with making s…

> You still need a custom distro for Raspberry Pi for example. Are you sure that's still the case? I just checked the Raspberry Pi Imager and I see several "stock" distro options t…

I'm fairly sure I recall Fedora folks signaling that they intend to move to RVA23 as soon as hardware becomes generally available. It is of course possible that Debian sticks with …

Most people would be better off waiting for the multiple RVA23 boards that are supposed to come out this year, at least if they don't want to be stuck running custom vendor distros…

Our CI workflow literally just invokes a plain old shell script (which is runnable outside CI). We really don't need an overcomplicated professional CI/CD solution. One of the nice…

> The reason they move to a lesser known Git provider sounds more like a marketing stunt. We had technical problems that GitHub had no interest in solving, and lots of small frustr…

Worth noting that LLVM has AVR and MSP430 backends, so there's no particular resistance to 8-bit/16-bit targets.

Hug of death followed by a DDoS. At the time of me writing this, it loads instantly again.