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Re:Zig 0.7.1 Released – 69 bugs fixed by dnautics on Monday December 14, 2020 @05:46AM (#25415553)
> Zig is a lot more complex than C

Well if you include preprocessor, make, and cmake (which I think is basically standard now), the level of complexity feels "close to parity".

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Re:Zig 0.7.1 Released – 69 bugs fixed by MaxBarraclough on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:13AM (#25415733)
Including CMake is downright unsporting ;-P
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Re:Zig 0.7.1 Released – 69 bugs fixed by dnautics on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:57AM (#25418262)
Most modern professional C projects do use it. You kind of can't get away.
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Re:Zig 0.7.1 Released – 69 bugs fixed by MaxBarraclough on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:09AM (#25418388)
We're agreed. I use it for my personal C++ projects. It's really quite awful (I've ranted about it on HN more than once [0][1]) but it's still the least bad choice.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24203172

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24565266

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