[alwaysbeconsing]

They seem to be specifically referring to the compiler error (as in, prevents compilation) for unused local variables. See discussion here: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/335#issuecomment-10011...

[Modified3019]

Yeesh, that's good to know. With the dev response basically doubling down on ideology and ignoring reasonable protest, that's definitely an ecosystem to not sink time into.

[Gibbon1]

My thought about unused variable is the compiler should assume someones trying to debug something and not optimize them out.

[ngrilly]

You're right. I read too fast. Coming from Go, I'm used to errors on unused local variables, and like that Zig does the same.