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As Andrew mentions in the post, even having a Twitter account was a source of stress. It's about more than just promoting his content. It's a feeling I can sympathize with. In 2009…

It might be rash if work had already started on it, but as with the other proposals on the issue tracker not labeled with "accepted", this is just a call for discussion and counter…

Gotta love goofy stunts that take effort to make! A spiritually similar programming language that also screams a lot is ArnoldC: https://lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC/

In general Zig foregoes syntactic sugar and requires implementing higher-level APIs by composing primitives. But a new language feature is a candidate when it solves a use case tha…

I don't speak for Jarred or Andrew, but here is a recent exchange between them about this matter: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/14542#issuecomment-141... The tension is und…

Same. My favorite geezer hacker/heist movie, Sneakers, drops a realistic San Francisco phone number (415 area code) near the end. I always wondered who would pick up if dialed...

Not mentioned in the talk, among the onslaught of media and merchandise following the success of the game was "Q*bert's Quazy Questions". It was one of my most treasured books as a…

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Compiling to C source isn't planned for the reference Zig compiler, as far as I know. It's more interested in helping people moving people off of C (see `zig translate-c`). But for…