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Re:Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang by pjmlp on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @02:40AM (#22682485)
I am still not sold on its security story, usage of @ and module imports.
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Re:Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang by skrebbel on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @03:01AM (#22682551)
Can you elaborate on the security story story?
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Re:Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang by pjmlp on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @03:11AM (#22682585)
Manual memory management, we have already learned that isn't the way to go, when security is part of the requirements in a connected world.

Still no way to catch use-after-free.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/3180

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Re:Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang by skrebbel on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @07:03AM (#22683456)
Clear, good point, thanks.
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