Comment by hota_mazi
2 years ago
Given the barrage of negative comments on the PR and here as well, it really feels like Andrew is the only person in favor of that change.
It's his language, obviously, but I strongly suspect that if this PR goes through, it will completely kill any kind of momentum that Zig has today and will most likely doom the language to obscurity.
Which would be a real shame.
Unless they sort out the issues related to use-after-free, the value preposition is hardly any better than using C and C++, with the memory corruption tooling there is around from the last 30 years.