Re:Zig Is Self-Hosted Now, What's Next?
by generalizations on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @01:34PM
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I see the acknowledgements of the bugs in the old compiler, but what bugs in the new compiler are you talking about? Also, a recurring theme in zig has been the advantages of their simple language design.
Re:Zig Is Self-Hosted Now, What's Next?
by kristoff_it on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @01:48PM
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See my reply in another comment tree https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33333827
Pretty much all of the talks and blog posts on the `in-Zig` compiler are about better performance, lower memory footprint, e.t.c.
I would much rather have heard a talk about how they improved correctness through automatic testing, formal methods, simple language design e.t.c.
A language that (does or doesn't) compile your code in 0.1 seconds to a broken binary is worse than piping your code into dev/null.