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It's amazing how coherent Zig's fundamental building blocks are as a programming language, everything fits together like a puzzle.

This post reminds me of one of Andrew's early talks about the type system and the comptime... With the core building blocks, we can achieve elegant solutions without adding unnecessary syntax complexity.

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In my opinion Zig is elegant except for one thing: cannot attach data to error.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2647

You have to workaround by things like passing into a pointer to error object.

Yes also the function syntax is weird and ugly because functions aren't expressions.

What do you mean? pun fn f() { } ? How is this weird

perfectly valid to do const f = fn (...) ... {...}

this is because attaching a payload requires asking the question of who and how the memory of such a payload is managed, and Zig the language never prescribes you into a particular answer to that question.

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