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		maleldil 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Some programming language ideas > - Everything except C now has standard strings, not just arrays of characters. Zig's strings are null-terminated arrays of bytes. It's an unfortunate mistake from an otherwise interesting language.

pjmlp 2 days ago [–]

Other than comptime, most of Zig ideas were already present in Modula-2, @ all over the place gives a "I miss Objective-C" flavour to it, and only source code ecosystem on a language supposed to be a systems programming language?

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