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It has C style interfaces, meaning structs with function pointers.

Which is basically how most device drivers in OSes that happen to be written in C, including UNIX flavours, work.

We all know that OP wasn't asking about THAT kind of interface and more "please create vtables for me" style of interface

That is too much compiler magic for Zig folks.

You know, I used to be annoyed by all your consistently shitty remarks in any zig related HN thread, but these days, it's refreshing to have an unpleasant interaction with a human.

Sincerely, thanks for all your hand-written hatred.

It goes both ways, when I see remarks regarding other languages from Zig community folks, not from you directly.

Modula-2 like safety is still better than C will ever be, though.

Yeah, it will be human as far as I can take it, cheers.

Perhaps it can be a relief to make assessments about a couple of newer C alternative languages[1][2]. Zen C appears to be moving up very quickly, and even has autofree.

[1]: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c (C3)

[2]: https://github.com/zenc-lang/zenc (Zen C)

That's a hack, not an interface lol

As plenty of other things in an "everything is explicit" language, whose goal is to be a safer C and nothing else.

The "module" system is another hack.

How is it a hack? I mean, you may not like the fact that Zig does not provide syntax sugar for interfaces, but how exactly do you think they are implemented in languages that do?

You would be terrified if you realized how the whole C-based GNOME/GTK ecosystem works :)

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