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> Imitation is the greatest form of flattery "... that mediocrity can pay to greatness" is the rest of the quote.

Apologies, I meant your comment pre-edit(s).

.....Did you just complain about Rust's "lower adoption" compared to C++, immediately following it by "Zig, on the other hand :eyes_emoji:"

> I don't think performance has got much to do with tinkering. Yes, in general, but also there are cases when you realize you can, idk, parse a CSV file in 0.2 seconds instead of 2…

Have you ever thought "Ugh, this bit of Python code is running much slower than I expected on my computer. Wonder if anyone has written a native library for this"? That's probably …

I foresee a pjmlp comment in your near future. :)

> Zig's compilation times are already terrific In my experience, this (for now) is mostly aspirational. It's obviously a major goal, and there are clear milestones outlined on how …

> no, JavaScript is not a perfect language Such a brave stance against a claim literally nobody has ever staked.

> Can someone explain why it sounds like there's such rapid growth of Bun? In my case, when I start a little Typescript side project, instead of drowning in the sea of npm/yarn/ber…

Tigerbeetle is in the database business. They operate on an entire different level of correctness expectations compared to something like Bun. The correctness guarantees they provi…

> And I greatly respect the small binary/download size The latest x86_64 Linux build is 136MB. ( https://zed.dev/docs/linux#downloading-manually ) As for your list of grievances, t…

> When you pay taxes you have no say in the bombs acquired with that and where they are dropped. Vote in elections, local and general.

Hehe, why "probably"? It says "250 lines" right there in the subject. Surely one can skim the single file of code ( https://github.com/ieviev/mini-gzip/blob/main/src/main.rs ) and …

I once witnessed a local admonish another (younger) local for exactly that at a bar. He replied with a bratty "Not my fault they're using crappy chopsticks..."

For future readers: throwaway27448's comment used to say something completely different, featuring the r-slur, and then immediately edited.

What about when you have a long-running program. You can't both brag about NumPy, Django, and the machine learning library ecosystem while also promoting "It's great for when you j…

> If I'm using one syntax, how do I tell you to fix a bug in your syntax? How about "Hey, your Bean ain't sprouting"? :) I'm sorry, I feel like I'm not communicating this properly.…

class Bean { private boolean sprouted; public void sprout() { this.sprouted = true; // ... } } or data Bean = Dormant | Sprouted sprout :: Bean -> Bean sprout Dormant = Sprouted sp…

No it won't? That's exactly the point -- each of those people will be viewing the code in their own preferred syntax. If there is semantic nuance in the writer's syntax, the reader…

Alt opinion: syntax is the least important part of a programming language. I can't wait for the day someone invents one where it's defined entirely as an AST (with the S standing f…