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I'm 100% hooked on Zig, don't really wanna use another language anymore Reading other people's Zig code is usually a joy, as is writing it

Wasmer rubs me the wrong way for some reason Staying clear

The Zig article specifically says bug fix bounties are different.

> or needed maintainer time that wasn’t there That's my experience with bounties: someone does the job because they get paid, not because they have a particular interest in the iss…

I ditched Rust a year ago in favor of Zig and have not regretted since Number of memory bugs in several fairly huge projects: 0 Zig is way more maintainable, leads to less code whi…

Fun fact: There's been a number of spectacular memory safety bugs in Rust programs where you have no option but to go unsafe. Which, in real systems programming, is quite often... …

> maybe you are just bad as a programmer (nothing wrong with that) This was actually my impression after reading the post. A bad programmer making a lot of ill-informed complaints.…

Seems like the author isn't used to low-level programming languages. Zig is a great C replacement.

Careful now. SVG uses a lot of XML features that goes beyond "basic XML parsing". To define a subset of SVG doesn't imply that simplifying the XML part is going to be easy.

> But to make a simple XML parser those are optional bits. Yes, but SVG requires a lot of those optional bits... A parser complex enough to deal with all the nooks and corners of S…

You enjoy writing Lisp, but somehow find parenthesis way too confusing when editing manually? That's pretty hilarious. If you take the expression above and format it in any half-de…

> So what's the deal? Are OP and me the only devs who have ever hit up against this issue in practice? The sad truth is that many issues go unreported because people are lazy and m…