Rust and Zig are fighting again

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  @ahhhhhhhhhhh2 · 1 month ago

  They might be memory safe, but not safe from drama 😂

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• AD

  @Adilettenstyle · 1 month ago

  ok claude, fix memory management. make no mistake !

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• HE

  @Heater-v1.0.0 · 1 month ago

  You are right. Memory management is the hardest problem in programming today. I can hardly remember what and/or why I wrote the code I did a month ago.

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• TH

  @thenitwitprogrammer · 1 month ago (edited)

  Haskell be still compiling till you release the next video; the smarter the language, the longer it takes to get you the binary!

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• J_

  @j_atkinson · 1 month ago (edited)

  Long time C/C++ developer, the Zig proposal still doesn't like it solve the problem of catching memory problems at the earliest point in development... before it runs.  You still have to handle those panics at run time at some point.  Also, no one accounts for the client's time tracking down those memory issues after the fact even with ASAN or Fil-C or whatever dyanmic checker is added and they could happened at odd times.

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• EL

  @eliasgvinp2141 · 1 month ago

  Maybe I completely missed what Fil-C actually is.<br>But I feel that this &quot;safe mode&quot; in Zig would be more of a debug mode than anything else.<br>Once your program runs long enough without panicking, you can compile it in regular release mode and avoid the runtime penalty while being reasonably sure that you don&apos;t have many memory-related bugs.

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• MA

  @maximenadeau5075 · 1 month ago

  I use fil-c a lot, just compile with fil-c, run your fuzzing tests in your CI with it, find issues, fix it, but run the program raw dog mode.

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• AK

  @akalaiderxd9686 · 1 month ago

  Adding a runtime to zig defeats the entire purpose of zig and at that point just use go. They could do something similar to rust dyn and smart pointers, which has a scoped overhead, but at that point the language is going to add complexity, which explicitly goes against the goal of &quot;Focus on debugging your application rather than debugging your programming language knowledge.&quot;

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• AB

  @abhishekkaith1686 · 1 month ago

  I really like pattern matching and error handling in rust

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• MA

  @maghfurrozak8954 · 1 month ago

  Golang user :<br><br>👀

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• IV

  @ivanilin1 · 1 month ago

  Well... Fil-C goals are mostly achieved with libc/libstdc++ library hardening flags. The newer gcc version offer -fhardened flag which enables a preset hardened flags for the compiler and the library code.

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• JU

  @JudahHelland · 1 month ago

  always good to see dan

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