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pcwalton 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 do
by hitekker 4y ago
pcwalton 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.