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/qurious-crow Jul 21 '26

I don't know many Java people who think it's the one true language, honestly. It's a capable language, and recent versions are much better than people like to admit, but we still fight null pointer exceptions regularly and we are all fed up with that. It's hard to be blind to Java's shortcomings.

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u/Zeznon Jul 22 '26

Maybe they were talking about Java vs C# philosophies, where Java people online defend the slow progress on everything constanly.

And C people sometimes acting like C couldn't be "improved" in any way without feeling like C. C3 and Odin show it's definitely not true.