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araoz

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    Comment #48893353

    the best way I've seen it described is like this: Bun wants to move fast and breaks things, Zig forces you to move slow and carefully. Bun wants to ship new features ASAP (a shell …

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    Comment #48893126

    AFAIK zig is not trying to be "better C++" (that is Rust), zig is more like "better C". a ergonomic low level lang with very little abstractions. zig explicitly doesn't want to be …

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    Comment #48336541

    I don't remember where it was said first, but I think the problem was not "AI drama" or that zig doesn't have "a good solution". It was more a mismatch between Bun's & Zig's goals.…

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    Comment #48336430

    writergate was not smooth, a lot of things that moved over to writer (Writer.Allocating for instance) had no documentation and I had to go read the zig source code to figure it out…

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    Comment #48336385

    I believe if the work you do fits well with Node & TS, you have no reason to use zig (other than for learning or curiosity). Like, if you don't need every drop of performance, memo…