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uaksom

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    Comment #48941465

    Changing core features every few months doesn't seem very consistent...

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    Comment #48939477

    It does seem like they're trying to convince themselves. If you like Zig, that's a good enough reason to use it. Why waste time on language tribalism? I have the same issue with "u…

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    Comment #48939374

    > I invite you to read the release notes and see for yourself the types of breaking changes we’re talking about. I did, and I immediately found this in the latest release: https://…

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    Comment #48553937

    Earendil did! https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/24/pi-oss/

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    Comment #46225966

    (author here) If you run the parser under a debugger like lldb, then attempt to inspect the AST of a program, it appears as an array of u64. Not very useful, unless you work on spe…

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    Comment #46225863

    (author here) I agree that it's a lot of complexity, and I acknowledge this in the article: You can get quite far with just a bump allocator. I didn't go into this at all, but the …

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    Comment #45922935

    Using data races: https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2025/07/24/memory-safety.html

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    Comment #43093996

    Thanks for the shoutout! We did recently add an export for LLMs[1], but weren't quite confident in how the big models handled it. The biggest issue we kept running into was that it…

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    Comment #34826355

    They don't, at least not yet. https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/lunatic/issues/150 It is WebAssembly based though, so it should be easier than trying to deal with dynamic librar…

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    Comment #32255088

    GC gives you a nice cushion, because it makes allocations fast. However, with a little bit of thought put into memory allocation (such as using arenas with bump allocation), you'd …