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I don't see how you can get 95% of the benefits of Python by programming in Zig. When I looked into Zig, it was like coding in C. Not as many built-in data stru

I don't see how you can get 95% of the benefits of Python by programming in Zig. When I looked into Zig, it was like coding in C. Not as many built-in data structures and you have to manually manage memory and all that. Zig seems like an attempt for a better C.

mjburgess 3y ago
for most applications you dont need gc, you can just have a one-off temporary allocator. you only really need the malloc model, or the gc model, of memory management for long running apps for python-style apps, theyre all die quickly