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by kaba0 1644 days ago
Not really back to that. Zig just chooses a different way to deal with memory, namely different compilation modes and faster write-compile-test cycles.

It’s a different tradeoff which may be worth it for some use-cases. But it’s definitely not obvious whether it is worse, as the alternative comes with a huge complexity on the language side.