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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by dnautics on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:03AM (#48893810)
> the Zig people are really just concerned that maybe Zig itself is a DOA language because it doesn't offer enough over C

I don't think anyone who actually uses zig thinks "it doesn't offer enough over C". Removing #define alone would have been worth it.

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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by locknitpicker on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:40AM (#48894376)
> Removing #define alone would have been worth it.

If you reach out to any project manager and pitch the idea to rewrite a whole app from scratch because you want to get rid of #define, first you will be laught out of the room and second they will reach out to HR to get a PIP going because whatever the hiring bar they used to hire a developer you clearly are not meeting it.

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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by dnautics on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:31PM (#48895101)
nice strawman. we're obviously talking about greenfield developmen, and then, probably not in corposlop environments.
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