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Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by vkazanov on Friday July 10, 2026 @04:57AM (#48857485)
Yes.

The biggest innovation of Rust is bringing some of the good ideas from functional programming to low level programming. I'd also say that partially exposing data flow analysis to a proframmer is new.

Rust package management is quite good, and also not by any means an invention.

I am still not a fan of all the ugly macro programming systems and verbose syntax in the language.

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Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by cmrdporcupine on Friday July 10, 2026 @02:53PM (#48863759)
Macros in Rust are really ergonomically terrible. Zig's approach here is way better.

The language I really want is somewhere inbetween those two languages.

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