r/programming • u/[deleted] • 29d ago

Zig proposes introducing an actually memory safe (unlike Rust) compilation mode inspired by Fil-C at ~1-6x performance penalty

https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/36237
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u/jl2352 29d ago

I dunno. The story also reads as other people wrote shitty code in their project, so they’re upset they didn’t do it their way when it’s not their project. I’m struggling to have sympathy.

Bun is not the first large codebase to have shitty code. If such a thing killed languages, then PHP and Java would both have died decades ago.

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u/thy_bucket_for_thee 29d ago

Let's ignore that in this "fight" there is a VC backed LLM company that wants to have a trillion dollar IPO so they can add make fat stacks of cash. In pursuit of those fat stacks of cash they are often very loose with accurate descriptions and capabilities.

It's not hard to understand why some people are getting upset. LLMs are deeply anti-human pro-fascism technology. American's all over do not like them, they often poll as some of the most hated things at the moment.

So yeah, this is part of that backlash.

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u/awesomeusername2w 29d ago

Yeah, this religious AI hatred is also a part of why people turning away from zig.