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The combination of static safety gracefully degrading to runtime safety where not provable is interesting to me

https://matklad.github.io/2025/08/09/zigs-lovely-syntax.html

I looked it up: The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed t…

you do not sacrifice memory safety. you sacrifice a compiler ensuring that code is memory safe by it enforcing one quite opinionated approach to it: RAII and lifetime analysis. you…

Not if choosing statically checked memory safety sacrifices for correctness where it is a local optimum

No ___, no ____. Just _____ or using "honest" to describe an approach.

Quality over quantity

I have no idea why I am responding to someone who flippantly uses a phrase like "dilittante mindset", but here we go there is definitely a tendency for noobs and amateurs in any ho…

"some of the newer ideas happening in this space are in the GNOME OS project and the KDE Linux project"

If I am remembering correctly, there was a moment where Garry was seriously considering using Squirrel instead of Lua. I think he experimented with JavaScript too. I’m not sure it’…

Don't engage with this guy, he shows up in every one of these threads to pattern match back to his heyday without considering any of the nuance of what is actually different this t…

I can see how you would have read it that way, now, but yes — I meant this article is defensive for no reason while being uninformed

As a fan and user of Zig I found the original post embarrassing, but chalked it up to the enthusiasm of a new user discovering the joy of something that clicked for them Taking off…

It’s hard to see this article as being written in good faith. We’re at the point that we are responding to low quality LLM outputs with low quality LLM retorts and voting them both…

I stopped using Rust because of this. I spent more time learning and cursing at other people’s abstractions versus thinking about what the computer is doing. > the ones who’d use Z…

One that I know of is https://timetree.org/

I considered making the case for the parallels to Lisp, but it's not an easy case to make. Zig is profoundly not a Lisp. However, in my opinion it embodies a lot of the spirit of i…

this is a really, really good article with a lot of nuance and a deep understanding of the tradeoffs in syntax design. unfortunately, it is evoking a lot of knee-jerk reactions fro…

Zig does not really try to appeal to window shoppers. this is one of those controversial decisions that, once you become comfortable with the language by using it, you learn to app…

> it's even worse that they landed on // for the syntax .. it is using \\

to me it seems like the market is breaking into an 80/20 of B2C/B2B; the B2C use case becoming OSS models (the market shifts to devices that can support them), and the B2B market b…

here's a quick recording from the 20b model on my 128GB M4 Max MBP: https://asciinema.org/a/AiLDq7qPvgdAR1JuQhvZScMNr and the 120b: https://asciinema.org/a/B0q8tBl7IcgUorZsphQbbZsM…

my very early first impression of the 20b model on ollama is that it is quite good, at least for the code I am working on; arguably good enough to drop a subscription or two

"Days Since Last VSCode Fork", when? this seems unmaintained https://dayssincelastvscodefork.com/