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Re:Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself by Tozen on Sunday April 17, 2022 @02:46PM (#31063172)
It is better to actually use the language, particularly as it is presently, versus refer to old disputable controversies from years ago. There are no false claims on their website (in my opinion), though of course there will be things people can dispute and argue about, as there is with all developing programming languages.

If a person does their research, then they would have clarity on the subjects. This is partly why I think it is better to refer people to the website or advise them to do their own evaluation, as oppose to reference critics or 3rd party websites who may have hidden motives and are advocates for a competing language. I think the competition between the newer languages has come to that point.

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Re:Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself by super_flanker on Sunday April 17, 2022 @09:20PM (#31066292)
> There are no false claims on their website

Are you sure about this? Let's look at their first feature, "No null". Ironically every vlang project including compiler itself is full of `isnil`[0] check.

This is just trailer for their lies; once start digging you'd find misrepresentation in every major features they advertise.

0: https://github.com/vlang/v/search?q=isnil

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Re:Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself by kaba0 on Sunday April 17, 2022 @06:33PM (#31065140)
Then could you please tell me the actual memory model of the language? Because that is the numero uno thing I want to know about a language, yet I constantly read contradicting thing on vlang’s model. (Is it boehm gc?)
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Re:Zig self hosted compiler is now capable of building itself by Tozen on Sunday April 17, 2022 @09:21PM (#31066299)
Vlang has multiple methods of optional memory management. This should not be so hard to grasp, as this is the case for other languages too. Take Nim, for example. It has several: gc:refc, gc:markAndSweep, gc:boehm, gc:go, gc:arc, etc...

Vlang has both the options of Autofree and GC, or you can do it manually. As the language is still developing (like other languages such as Crystal, Odin, and Zig), users should know these memory management options are experimental and still being refined.

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