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saghmyesterday at 11:50 PM1 replyview on HN

I thought Zig was supposed to be a C replacement (as in, it doesn't actually provide full safety in the way that Rust or a GC language would)?


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lifthrasiiryesterday at 11:52 PM

Oh, yeah that might be confusing. I meant "you can say the same thing for GC language if that's true, which isn't necessarily true, so that must be false".

More precisely speaking: GC languages are said to delay memory problems far beyond the horizon, which is often unreachable throughout the project's history. Zig can be a similar case.

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