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Your quoted sentence talks about bugs in the old C++ compiler, I'm talking about bugs in both compilers. Pretty much all of the talks and blog posts on the `in
by j-pb 4y ago
Your quoted sentence talks about bugs in the old C++ compiler, I'm talking about bugs in both compilers.
Pretty much all of the talks and blog posts on the `in-Zig` compiler are about better performance, lower memory footprint, e.t.c.
I would much rather have heard a talk about how they improved correctness through automatic testing, formal methods, simple language design e.t.c.
A language that (does or doesn't) compile your code in 0.1 seconds to a broken binary is worse than piping your code into dev/null.
- generalizations 4y agoI see the acknowledgements of the bugs in the old compiler, but what bugs in the new compiler are you talking about? Also, a recurring theme in zig has been the advantages of their simple language design.
- kristoff_it 4y agoSee my reply in another comment tree https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33333827 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33333827