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dist-epochtoday at 12:57 PM1 replyview on HN

And compiler generated assembly code is ugly and spaghetti, unlike beautiful hand-crafted human written assembly code, the kind you see in ffmpeg codecs, ...

Doesn't matter.


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QwenGlazer9000today at 1:06 PM

It does matter, because that's the entire point of the language. You know, memory safety?

The vibe coded rust port did not get them any closer to full compiler verified memory safety. They still need to go file by file, bit by bit, and make it memory safe, at which point, why not just do that from zig.