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sarrephtoday at 11:27 AM3 repliesview on HN

It's hard, in my opinion, to lend credence to the author here when they decided to devote the first and largest section of their article to an incisive display of speculative ad hominem.

Would have been a great opportunity to outline the benefits of Zig! I've been keen to pick Zig up recently due to mitchellh's evangelism and inspiring writing on the subject.

This article puts me off learning Zig.


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embedding-shapetoday at 11:30 AM

> first and largest section of their article to an incisive display of speculative ad hominem.

Seems you're not alone in feeling this, mind quoting the exact and verbatim parts that seem like "speculative ad hominem"? I see there are quite a bits about how Andrew sees Jarred and his workflow/work mentality, but I'm not sure I see clearly what is supposed to be the ad hominem, speculative or not.

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androiddrewtoday at 11:31 AM

The author being the author of zig…

fg137today at 11:37 AM

> Would have been a great opportunity to outline the benefits of Zig!

Eh, Google and ChatGPT both exist?