Zig v0.17.0

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audunw

Would recommend checking out the Zig state of the (tagged) union as well.

https://youtu.be/zwi5b5xSsKA?is=PTjJJjSnVMdRuZag

It may surprise some people here to see that Andrew is warming up to using LLMs to discover bugs (inspired by results from SQLlite) and considers it a tool on the path to getting to bug free software.

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bricss

Andrew wake up! The machines is already among us. It's either you will use them, or they will use you. --- Take this pill (////) with plenty of water \_/

jabedude

How is Zig doing as a project? I remember they took a hard line against AI

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luiwammus

Although I understand that upgrading LLVM version is a lot of work, it's a bit frustating that loop vectorization is still disabled.

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ai_critic

> Please consider a recurring donation so that we can offer more billable hours to our core team members.

Just don't be surprised if the project BFDL talks shit about you or your company later.

(Still a good language though, credit where credit is due.)

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