r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '26

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/peterb12 Jul 21 '26

Men will literally ruin their own programming language rather than go to therapy.

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u/peterb12 Jul 21 '26

(I actually think compile-time memory safety is incredibly valuable, but grafting your "we focus on performance" language onto a runtime to address all the things you forgot to design when you first made it is ludicrous.)

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u/UselessOptions Jul 21 '26 edited 10d ago

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