News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke. Parent comment

Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by selfmodruntime on Monday July 13, 2026 @10:00AM (#48892817)
The industry isn't biting @ Zig because it's unstable, notoriously difficult to integrate new changes into an existing codebase and because the compiler is a bitch to develop with (hard error on unused variables with no way to turn it off).
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by tayo42 on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:52AM (#48894568)
Go has that same problem/feature
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by selfmodruntime on Monday July 13, 2026 @05:09PM (#48898928)
Yes, sadly.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by jdiff on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:15PM (#48901853)
Not sure that last one rings true. There are entire languages with no allowed unused variables (some without prepending a _ to the names) that people love to develop with.

In the industry, how often is it that a tool/language is picked up for the ease of developing that tool, vs ease of using that tool?

[ Parent | on HN ]