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Re:Zig Is Self-Hosted Now, What's Next? by pmarreck on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @09:44PM (#33338692)
> and then busting out the hardcore QA

This thinking seems... backward (or at least overall counterproductive/like more work) to me. Do you not have a test suite? At least, unit tests for core language features? It seems (with all due respect) a bit irresponsible not to have this, it would at least prevent most regressions in tested code for example (such as breaking "for" loops, as someone else mentioned)

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Re:Zig Is Self-Hosted Now, What's Next? by kristoff_it on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:31PM (#33339055)
Zig has thousands of tests, but the problem space of a programming language is pretty big, making fuzzing and other similar techniques worth the effort in the long run. The discussion wasn't about the existence of basic unit tests.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/tree/master/test

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Re:Zig Is Self-Hosted Now, What's Next? by pmarreck on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:02PM (#33347213)
I also possibly misinterpreted someone else's comment about "for" breaking, assuming it was a regression instead of an intended syntax change which might have been covered by units. My bad
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