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0 pointsbeders11mo ago0 comments

Zig just caught up with the practice that runs rampant in JavaScript land ;)

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toastercat11mo ago· 2 in thread

this comparison doesn't really make sense since JS as a language keeps a lot of old baggage to maintain backwards compatibility.

flohofwoe11mo ago

In reality it makes little difference whether source code needs to be fixed because of a breaking language or dependency update. Even in C/C++ I need to go over my code whenever I update to a new compiler version because of new warnings.

pjmlp11mo ago

And that is why when no one pays the budget for doing tooling upgrades in big corps, the tooling never gets updated.

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