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Re:Some Programming Language Ideas by maleldil on Thursday January 09, 2025 @06:04PM (#42650754)
> - Everything except C now has standard strings, not just arrays of characters.

Zig's strings are null-terminated arrays of bytes. It's an unfortunate mistake from an otherwise interesting language.

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Re:Some Programming Language Ideas by pjmlp on Friday January 10, 2025 @02:32AM (#42653491)
Other than comptime, most of Zig ideas were already present in Modula-2, @ all over the place gives a "I miss Objective-C" flavour to it, and only source code ecosystem on a language supposed to be a systems programming language?
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