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you're right that that is a weak argument against C++ in that use case (biased by my own dislike of the language); but it is also a niche that Zig fits into quite well. so it's wei…

that you understand and think dropping down to C++ is what you need to do when you "need the best performance" is quite enough of a tell to invalidate the rest of your opinion here…

hello!! I have been planning to reach out to Synth Library Portland; it's awesome to hear from someone connected to it. I know they recently got kicked out of their Lloyd Center lo…

thanks for sharing this. not sure if you are the author, but it's really useful reading this right now. I am working, quite literally as I write this, on starting a community space…

What is your point? I feel I made the one you are making before you even responded the first time. That Discord communications can be exfiltrated in this specific set of circumstan…

First, the user knows this when joining a public community. Second, the moderators can choose to remove someone who has joined the community in bad faith. Third, it is entirely dif…

Users in a Discord server/local community on tools like Discord naturally expect that their actions within that community are private in so far as they trust everyone in the commun…

Binary space partitioning

`extern` and `packed` container types have well defined layouts. a regular `struct` is an "auto" layout - and the compiler can and will rearrange whenever it wants. if you need a w…

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I haven't verified this, but I would be willing to bet that most of Bun's issues here have more to do with interfacing with JavaScriptCore through the C FFI than Zig itself. this i…

you say this like it's some own or something, but I'd be more surprised if they didn't. believe it or not, they are already donating some of their funds to the upstream ecosystem[0…

C, C++, Rust, Zig. Rust and C++ have an infamous learning curve. If you know anything about using any systems language other than Zig, Zig is incredibly simple to pick up, like C. …

Zig is famously simple to pick up and write with, so I don't know what you mean by "difficult". Software is dangerous. Memory safety is one of a million ways it can be dangerous. A…

Zig is a tool that helps professionals prevent those mistakes. "Memory safe languages" are tools that prevent professionals from making those mistakes. It's a subtle but important …

the answer I've seen when it has been brought up before is that (for allocators) there is not a practical impact on performance -- allocating takes way more time than the virtual d…

out of curiosity, what feature do you want?

not being a direct competitor to either of these already existing languages is exactly why it is interesting!

I've tried writing a similar post, but I think it's a bit difficult to sound convincing when talking about why Zig is so pleasant. it's really not any one thing. it's a culmination…

matklad did it justice in his post here, in my opinion https://matklad.github.io/2025/08/09/zigs-lovely-syntax.html

I know they’re different workflows entirely, but you could start dabbling with Bitwig, which is really good and runs on both macOS and Linux, then eventually switch when you feel l…

Sure there is zero immediate risk, I just genuinely don’t know what I would get out of taking on the risk of adding a community maintained middleman into the supply chain. I know, …

Good point, the database written in Zig with a bug mascot tells us nothing about writing a database in Zig without a bug mascot

As someone quite happy with a vanilla Fedora Silverblue install on both my desktop and laptop, can anyone explain why I would rebase to Bluefin instead? It seems like there must be…