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Re:Why we built Lightpanda in Zig by karmakaze on Friday December 05, 2025 @02:42PM (#46166286)
This is one of my assessments/red-flags when interviewing with a company. Their tech stack/choices is a reflection of their engineering culture. If they chose Zig or Rust, I'd want to hear why that was a better choice than using a gc'd language.
Re:Why we built Lightpanda in Zig by Milpotel on Friday December 05, 2025 @03:17PM (#46166692)
> If they chose Zig or Rust, I'd want to hear why that was a better choice than using a gc'd language.

Come on, they advertise with benchmarks hence it's quite obvious why they didn't chose a gc'd language.

Re:Why we built Lightpanda in Zig by karmakaze on Friday December 05, 2025 @07:06PM (#46169075)
Oh yes I know they do in this post, I meant more generally. Even myself I often wish I had a need to use a lower-level, cooler language, but the pragmatic side of me just can't justify it.