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Re:Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes by bsaul on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:00AM (#47333643)
i wonder what makes go more modern than java, in terms of features.
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Re:Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes by cultab on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:14AM (#47333737)
The tooling and dependency management probably
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Re:Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes by thezipcreator on Thursday March 12, 2026 @01:30AM (#47346867)
I still don't understand how they managed to make a build system as bad as Gradle. It's like they tried to make it as horrible as possible to use.
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Re:Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes by kristianp on Thursday March 12, 2026 @03:29AM (#47347571)
Yes, every time I fire up an old Android project it needs to download 500MB just for gradle upgrades. It's nuts.
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