Re:Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig
by kibwen on Thursday April 30, 2026 @10:50AM
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> Sure, though most of the time it's library-only, not language change
While this distinction is often useful, here we have to think about it from the perspective of users: you press the button to upgrade your toolchain, and code that formerly worked stops working. If a language supported upgrading your compiler/interpreter separately from your standard library then that would be different, but generally a standard library version is considered tightly coupled to a language version.
While this distinction is often useful, here we have to think about it from the perspective of users: you press the button to upgrade your toolchain, and code that formerly worked stops working. If a language supported upgrading your compiler/interpreter separately from your standard library then that would be different, but generally a standard library version is considered tightly coupled to a language version.