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0 pointsmort961mo ago0 comments

The point is that the "extremely high amount of crashes/bugs" is maybe not the fault of Zig after all, as was implied.

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fastball1mo ago· 2 in thread

How software behaves is very obviously downstream of the tools (in this case programming language) used to build it.

mort96OP1mo ago

"Downstream of" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Language has an effect on, but in no way determines, the reliability of software written in it.

fastball1mo ago

Downstream doesn't imply determinism.

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