To be clear, I would also actually prefer if those were warnings in development mode, but so far at least Zig has no warnings, only errors. But I'm open to the idea that the Zig team knows what they are doing ;)
Re:Zig: The Modern Alternative to C
by tialaramex on Friday March 10, 2023 @09:25AM
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AIUI Zig has embraced the view that either something is bad, and so it's an error and we shouldn't compile, or it's fine so no need for a warning. I don't think this actually is a reasonable stance although I can see why C might make you think so.
Rust's linter, clippy, provides a rich seam of stuff that definitely shouldn't be fatal but some / many people would value knowing about. For example yesterday I built a Range which intentionally is the wrong way up, isize::MAX..isize::MIN - and so clippy says well, that's probably not what you wanted. This is a good lint. If I ever do the same thing by mistake I definitely want to know about it, but this time was not a mistake, so I wrote an allow attribute on that Range to silence the linter and also flag to readers, "No, this is on purpose".
And it is not even hard to solve, just add a “production” profile where it is an error for all I care, and a “debug” one where it really shouldn’t be linting my code unnecessarily.