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by Zambyte 407 days ago
Not sure why this was flagged. It was an interesting read, thanks for sharing. My biggest concern with using Zig has been the breaking changes that you mentioned, but I have been pushing forward with it for personal projects because it just seems like people are able to work around them easily, like you mentioned.
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You're welcome! My experience with the breaking changes in Zig has not been bad at all. For brevity in the blog I didn't get into what I had to do to get things working again, but the process itself was straightforwards. Sometimes the names of some standard library functions had changed, sometimes it was some extra fields in the build system. Whatever the case, the changes were almost always documented in the release notes anyway, so after reading the release notes I basically knew the (small) amount of work I had ahead of me.
All posts not fellating Rust are eventually flagged here. It’s not really a neutral venue for more academic conversations about PLT.