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A comment on Ask HN: Is the Zig programming language dead?.

Re:Ask HN: Is the Zig programming language dead? by sobeston on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:26PM (#33179319)
I actually saw multiple people in the Zig core team (and others) actively working on the Zig compiler in person this weekend! Development may have slowed in the last 2 weeks or so because of the SYCL conference; given the turnout I can assure you that there is no decline in people working with or on Zig long-term. If you look at the commits, issues, or the stage 2 meetings (normally held every thursday in the discord), you would also see that the project isn't on the decline. You're correct that the financial reports of the ZSF aren't up to date - these are updated manually so you can expect some delay.

I'm assuming you're the same person that made multiple new stack overflow accounts recently to ask (and answer, on a different account) this question here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74040564/is-the-zig-prog... (since removed by moderators).

My question to you is: Why are you trying to force this false narrative?

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Re:Ask HN: Is the Zig programming language dead? by sobeston on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:35PM (#33179446)
https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/y1zuzv/is... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskProgramming/comments/y1zwan/is_t...

Assuming this is you also. There were commits to Zig less than an hour before you posted this.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the Zig programming language dead? by chris2860 on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:39PM (#33183818)
You are correct that I also asked other online communities this question.

I wouldn't say I was trying to force a narrative. I was asking out of concern. I was especially unnerved after seeing the development graph on GitHub:

https://imgur.com/M09Nkx9

Also seeing there were features that haven't been implemented for the last 6 years made me even less confident about the future of the project:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/68

Even from this post:

https://andrewkelley.me/post/full-time-zig.html

Of all the Zig projects the author said he was going to work on:

- https://github.com/andrewrk/groovebasin/tree/zig

- https://github.com/andrewrk/genesis/tree/zig

- https://github.com/andrewrk/clashos

he never committed and did any of them.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the Zig programming language dead? by kristoff_it on Thursday October 13, 2022 @03:55AM (#33188417)
> I was asking out of concern.

Right. Thank you for just asking questions.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the Zig programming language dead? by einarr on Thursday October 13, 2022 @06:00AM (#33189150)
Right, so it's a total coincidence that when you "asked" your question on Stack Overflow somebody created a new account and posted a detailed answer with links and a screenshot within minutes of you posting the question.
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Re:Ask HN: Is the Zig programming language dead? by chris2860 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @06:36AM (#33189331)
Don't know what you're talking about. Could you share a link, please?

I did ask the same question to other online communities (specifically Reddit and Stack Overflow) to get an unbiased answer.

From Google's cache (enter this in the address bar):

- cache:https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/y1zuzv/is...

- cache:https://www.reddit.com/r/AskProgramming/comments/y1zwan/is_t...

I asked on Reddit from my 3-year-old account. In comparison, your account is 30 minutes old.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the Zig programming language dead? by einarr on Thursday October 13, 2022 @10:34AM (#33191559)
Very convenient to ask for a link when you know that the question was removed by moderators and wasn't cached the Google's cache or Web Archive. The link can be found in sobeston's message.

The screenshot from the "answer" is still alive: https://imgur.com/M09Nkx9. But I bet it'll be gone very soon.

Here's a little cached metadata from a Telegram group: https://t.me/ziglang_en/35662

I don't see how the age of my first and brand-new HN account is relevant here.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the Zig programming language dead? by kristoff_it on Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:59AM (#33189798)
maybe you should take a moment to consider why you have to give out google cache links, instead of linking the original post. maybe there's a reason they both got removed.
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