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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by wtetzner on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:14PM (#24618943)
> So e.g. in Go an unused import is an error.

Which is an incredibly annoying thing, because you can't easily just comment out some code and do a quick build to test something. You are forced to cleanup imports/unused variables every time you want to build something.

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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by dilap on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:25PM (#24619067)
Tradeoffs :-)

(Also, if you use something like goimports, it's pretty much automatic.)

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