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Yes. It's don't think it's fair to called "a heated discussion". pcwalton made a small correction about a claim someone made concerning the database, and crolor
by hyperpape 4y ago
Yes. It's don't think it's fair to called "a heated discussion". pcwalton made a small correction about a claim someone made concerning the database, and croloris/kristoff_it made a response he subsequently regretted and deleted. There was no heat until he introduced it.
- hitekker 4y agopcwalton said on 9/9/2022 that Zig was "a massive step backwards for the industry". He believes that all new languages should be "memory safe"; anything that doesn't meet his definition of memory safe is against "consensus". https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/1568302065851707392 https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/1568302065851707392 Patrik's comment came before croloris's flame, and around the same time Zig was praised in the recent GameJam thread. The trade-off between memory safety and performance triggered a minor flamewar which Patrick heated by asserting that Zig wasn't memory safe and it violated "consensus". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32783244 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32783244
- dagmx 4y agoTo slightly correct you, as I think you’re misreading the tweets, he said the change in the consensus of wanting memory safety to not caring about it was a massive step back for the industry. He was asking if the idea of memory safety was consensus and didn’t say that things against it were not consensus.