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Re:A simplified model of Fil-C by cxr on Saturday April 18, 2026 @06:51AM (#47814863)
I know what they were talking about. It was clearly intended to be a cheerfest for Rust.

> I don't think you can get "equivalent tooling" for such things the languages you list without raising interesting questions about what actually counts as Pascal/C/Zig.

I said builds. All of the languages I mentioned have "equivalent tooling" for that (i.e. compilers—to produce builds for the programs you choose to write in those languages).

Re:A simplified model of Fil-C by aw1621107 on Saturday April 18, 2026 @09:43AM (#47815886)
> I said builds. All of the languages I mentioned have "equivalent tooling" for that (i.e. compilers—to produce builds for the programs you choose to write in those languages).

Oh, my mistake. Given the context I thought you were talking about some hypothetical tooling that gave you something approaching Rust's feature set.