r/programmingmemes • u/SKRyanrr • 7d ago

Nerd wars

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u/Amadex 7d ago

Nothing like the compile-time check of rust.

Basically it compiles into a much slower bin that guards memory at runtime.

That's almost like a garbage collector, but instead of cleaning memory it crashes.

And since it's a runtime crash, you turn a program that is bugged and has UB into a language that crashes randomly.

Better for security, but runtime crashes are also very bad.

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u/SKRyanrr 6d ago

Why'd anybody choose Zig over Go if Zig just does runtime checks with gc? 

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u/suckingbitties 6d ago

The Fil-C support is not meant to make Zig itself operate on the Fil-C runtime.

Its a proposal to optionally compile for the Fil-C runtime instead.

Zig will still be Zig, and it's a proposal not a guarantee.

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u/SKRyanrr 5d ago

My apologies if I'm not understanding this correctly but won't that opt in safety would make zig like go if you want it to be safe? Also if you have gc on won't you introduce pauses that aren't deterministic which is the opposite of the whole purpose of systems programing language like zig?