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by pjmlp 1847 days ago
In what concerns Zig, I would rather have the use-after-free scenario be taken care of before the whole RIZ starts.

Regarding Java, it had a major killer feature that triggered adoption even before the whole marketing wave started.

It was actually portable, not like trying to write C or C++ code in the middle of ongoing standards, compilers still stuck in the old ways, POSIX on paper and on actual UNIX clones not being 100% the same thing.

It was like a fresh air of portability even with an interpreted runtime, JIT only came in by 1.2 days.