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tialaramextoday at 9:43 AM1 replyview on HN

It's so bad that here we are in the 21st century and there are even still people who insist it wasn't a mistake e.g.: https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/01/02/was-it-really-...


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bvrmntoday at 11:55 AM

It's quite a delusional take from Bill. Wow. Using non-nullable (a sane language default) pointers in Zig is liberating experience. And it's still as low level as in C but instead of ship-and-pray you could state your intention with a type system.