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pjmlp 11 hours ago [-]
> This means that large parts of what used to be included in the compiler executable are now shipped in source form instead, including:
For some strange reason now it became fashionable to treat compiled languages as if they were scripting languages.
Go did the same a few releases ago.
Just ship a JIT as well, if the goal is to have each user compile the code.
audunw 48 minutes ago [-]
I truly don’t understand what value a JIT would provide here. Especially in Zigs case. The language allows for full pre-compilation and the compiler is so blazingly fast it’ll finish compiling faster than the startup time of some interpreted languages. So what would adding an interpreter/JIT achieve? Absolutely nothing.
Seems to me the idea of using a JIT here is just because it’s fashionable, not because it solves a real problem.
pjmlp 15 minutes ago [-]
More like why are we turning Go and Zig into Gentoo?
It is like the dumb idea of header only libraries, most likely pushed by folks that only did scripting languages before coming into a compiled language.
"Linkers? What are those for?"
baranul 12 hours ago [-]
Submissions (from 3rd party sources) on Dlang, Vlang, or other language will "magically disappear", but posts on Zig that come straight from the source are fully HN approved and constantly churned out (almost daily) as if from a marketing propaganda factory.
For some strange reason now it became fashionable to treat compiled languages as if they were scripting languages.
Go did the same a few releases ago.
Just ship a JIT as well, if the goal is to have each user compile the code.
Seems to me the idea of using a JIT here is just because it’s fashionable, not because it solves a real problem.
It is like the dumb idea of header only libraries, most likely pushed by folks that only did scripting languages before coming into a compiled language.
"Linkers? What are those for?"