Great article I think. I don’t have a lot of experience in zig, but I feel like it’s just a better version of C. More specifically, C with a more modern synthax, better defined behaviour, better error handling. As the author highlights it, using the comptime and reflection to make generics can easily become a footgun and make the code messy. But hey, having the option to make generic code is still better than C.

Are there really esperato speakers in the wild (not just Duolingo?) It would be a fun language to learn, but if no one speaks i’d rather just get better at german :)

Does a microkernel matter for anyone but nerds? Maybe companies that make variants of the OS?

Cats are just very autistic :)

To be fair, “they” could probably train AI on Lemmy data, they just won’t ask for permission and won’t be charged for it

If all major APIs use SPIR-V, does it mean that it could become the ISA of some GPUs? Like that time someone made some hardware that executed Java bytecode directly?

SEO breaks the web, writer was a hero :)