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Re:The Odin Programming Language by BubRoss on Friday January 31, 2020 @02:55PM (#22204978)
I don't think anything has beat the designs of Clay or V, but they aren't really usable. Then again zig intentionally breaks on windows text files so I couldn't say it is widely usable either.
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Re:The Odin Programming Language by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday January 31, 2020 @03:19PM (#22205208)
Even notepad can do \n-only newlines these days. Zig can't do UTF-16 files either, but no one complains about that.
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Re:The Odin Programming Language by earenndil on Friday January 31, 2020 @08:29PM (#22207865)
Cyclone was definitely there. Sadly no longer maintained, and not at all practical to get working on modern systems (I did some work on it, then gave up).
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Re:The Odin Programming Language by mottosso on Saturday February 01, 2020 @04:24AM (#22209605)
> Then again zig intentionally breaks on windows text files

Too true. I ran into this after about 10 minutes of trying the language. Copy pasting from a GitHub issue? Better hope those invisible newlines are what you expect.

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Re:The Odin Programming Language by renox on Saturday February 01, 2020 @04:41AM (#22209650)
I view this as a good idea!
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Re:The Odin Programming Language by BubRoss on Saturday February 01, 2020 @05:15PM (#22213617)
You think alienating 90% of your potential users is a good idea?
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