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cbmuseryesterday at 8:25 AM2 repliesview on HN

Having to introduce a new language stack to distributioms just to be able to build a terminal emulator is what I would consider over-engineering.


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surajrmalyesterday at 9:26 AM

So anything that uses a less popular language is considered over engineering? Distros support lots of different languages already and there are likely other packages built with zig already.

weebullyesterday at 10:12 AM

A 50-ish MB build time dependency that doesn't need any special privileges or installation to run? That's over engineering? A binary release of just CMake is bigger than all of Zig.