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Re:Zig, the Small Language by avgcorrection on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @03:10PM (#32755083)
Maybe this becomes the equivalent of `go fmt` in 10 years. “How I learned to stop worrying and love errors-only”
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Re:Zig, the Small Language by edflsafoiewq on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @03:17PM (#32755237)
We've had -Werror forever, the consensus is it's a bad idea. In addition to everything else, you can't ever change the warnings, including fixing bugs in them, without potentially breaking code.
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Re:Zig, the Small Language by von_lohengramm on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @04:51PM (#32756656)
> We've had -Werror forever, the consensus is it's a bad idea.

Says who? Package repo maintainers? -Werror is actually quite divisive.

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Re:Zig, the Small Language by plorkyeran on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @11:17PM (#32760751)
Anyone who wants to be able to compile a program with a different or newer compiler than the author last tested it on.
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