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Re:I've been designing a language since 2009 – friends and I... by quelltext on Sunday August 14, 2022 @02:13PM (#32461495)
They seem to have a good write up to explain that: https://zen-lang.org/zig/

Also: forking /= stealing

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Re:I've been designing a language since 2009 – friends and I... by lifthrasiir on Sunday August 14, 2022 @03:19PM (#32462074)
You may want to check out the official statement [1] from the Zig foundation as well. Even though forking is not necessarily stealing, what they have done seems more accurately described as stealing.

[1] https://ziglang.org/news/statement-regarding-zen-programming... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24481142 )

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Re:I've been designing a language since 2009 – friends and I... by quelltext on Sunday August 21, 2022 @04:00AM (#32538233)
Not really. Like, I would't use Zen personally and it's fair for Zig to highlight their concerns, but still none of this is stealing, and seems more like a petty disagreement, the cause of many forks on other projects in history.
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Re:I've been designing a language since 2009 – friends and I... by t-3 on Sunday August 14, 2022 @03:35PM (#32462205)
> forking /= stealing

I think many people just fundamentally don't understand sharing or friendly coexistence. The drive to dominate and control is sooo maladaptive for society but very widespread.

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