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A comment on Zig: a system language which prioritizes optimality, safety, and readability. Parent comment

Re:Zig: a system language which prioritizes optimality, safe... by wolf550e on Sunday August 28, 2016 @08:52PM (#12379327)
Basically every deployed C codebase contains "undefined behavior".
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Re:Zig: a system language which prioritizes optimality, safe... by necessity on Monday August 29, 2016 @02:10AM (#12380314)
Which is intended. Suggested reading: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/213
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Re:Zig: a system language which prioritizes optimality, safe... by majewsky on Monday August 29, 2016 @05:07AM (#12380817)
But I will still always argue that it's a bad trade-off to make compiler construction slightly easier at the expense of insecure code all over the place.
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