[inferiorhuman]

  If you want to release something on windows you match an extra byte on the ends of lines

Did I miss some sort of formal directive from Microsoft or is this just outrage that someone dared do something not up to your standards?

  try to punish and troll its users for using it

Nobody's being punished. Configuring your dev environment is something people do for every language. Let's add some perspective here: we're talking about a single runtime option for your text editor of choice. BFD. More to the point, why isn't your editor or IDE properly supporting Zig files?

[CyberDildonics]

Did I miss some sort of formal directive from Microsoft or is this just outrage that someone dared do something not up to your standards?

It's just the way it works, it isn't my standards, it is literally any piece of software that detects line breaks.

Nobody's being punished. Configuring your dev environment is something people do for every language.

No one has to configure around this issue because it is trivially solved and dealt with by every piece of software on the planet. It takes longer to write an error message than it does it just split a line correctly.

Let's add some perspective here: we're talking about a single runtime option for your text editor of choice.

Let's add some perspective here: they intentionally broke their own software to upset 72% of their potential users.

More to the point, why isn't your editor or IDE properly supporting Zig files?

No one has to care about zig, it's a niche language that doesn't care about its users, it's irrelevant except for hacker news threads.

If some language started demanding you save all your text files with carriage returns or will will error out, what would you think?

You sound like a lawyer grasping at straws instead of someone with a reasonable perspective that wouldn't be hypocritical when flipped around.

[inferiorhuman]

  You sound like a lawyer grasping at straws instead of 
  someone with a reasonable perspective that wouldn't be
  hypocritical when flipped around.

What lawyer speak? You're throwing a temper tantrum over a situation entirely of your own making. That there's a Windows port of Zig and sufficient users to justify its continued existence pretty clearly shows your hyperbole isn't representative in the way you claim.

Were I in a situation where I needed to work with something not expecting LF line termination I'd either configure my dev environment appropriately or find tools that do what I want.

  No one has to care about zig, it's a niche language that doesn't
  care about its users, it's irrelevant except for hacker news threads.

So when it's your tool selection nobody has to care? But when someone else makes a decision you disagree with it's the end of the world? Gotcha. Don't check that checkbox. Stay mad, bro.

[CyberDildonics]

it's the end of the world?

You didn't confront anything I wrote and instead just made up something no one said. All I did say was that zig is intentionally hostile to their own users, which they are.

If you could actually deal with what I wrote I think you would have done it already.

[inferiorhuman]

From where I'm sitting it seems like it's time for you to take a break from this thread.

[CyberDildonics]

I guess we're at the "claim the other person is upset to avoid what they said" (and edit posts) part of the conversation.

[inferiorhuman]

No, we're at the you're making an emotional argument backed by hyperbole and I'm moving on stage. Look at your language: punished, trolled, "any piece of software", "every piece of software", "it takes longer to write an error message than it does it just split a line correctly", "lawyer grasping at straws".

You're personally aggrieved because someone dared release a compiler that runs on windows but doesn't accept non-standard line endings. I've already addressed what you've said but you've responded with a bunch of handwaving because you're merely making an emotional argument.

If you'd like me at address what you wrote again:

  it takes longer to write an error message than it does it just split a line correctly

It takes longer to write your tantrums than to configure your development environment correctly.