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		materielle 74 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Zig so cool? I’m actually not a huge Zig person. But yes, avoiding arcaneness for the sake of arcaneness will earn you more users. A big success of Rust has nothing to do with systems programming or the borrow checker. But just that it brings ML ideas to the masses without having to learn a completely new syntax and fight with idiosyncratic toolchains and design decisions.

pjmlp 74 days ago [–]

Or it is another example of younger generations unaware of our computing history, celebrating something that they think is totally new.

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