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		timeon 88 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world ... How are chairs related to programming languages? Analogies are just made-up arguments.

mattwilsonn888 88 days ago [–]

Because a primary function of the chair is the same to programming languages: ergonomics.

That is obviously true, otherwise we'd code in assembly and type in UTF-8 byte codes.

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