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by MintPaw 102 days ago
This kind of thought is popular in the web world where browsers get an update every 3 days and you don't control the hosting services, so constant maintenance is unavoidable.

But in the world of desktop development it's possible for a library to be "done", having a 100% stable codebase going forward and requiring no maintenance. And it's not bad, it's actually good.

Requiring every dependency to be constantly maintained is a massive drain on productivity.

2 comments

Once Zig hits 1.0 it will essentially be done. They don't plan on making further changes to the language, so they want to get it right while they can.
Looks like all the 2 users of C3 came here to complain about Zig. Why should we listen to you?
I've never even heard of C3, I use C++ and Jai.

I've never used Zig either, I just disagree that requiring constant maintenance is a good.