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> Just search "segfault" on the Zig issue tracker and you'll see why people are starting to be skeptical of the future utility of such a language in the face of something like Rust.

Zig has 110 open "segfault" issues [1] versus Rust's 175 open "segfault" issues [2]. So, by your logic, Rust is also bad.

edit: I was just trying to point out that the parent's "just search segfault" argument is lazy. Also, Zig is still in beta.

[1] https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues?state=open&type=all&...

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20stat...

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You're not seriously out here posting raw numbers without considering the base rate are you

You're not seriously posting about base rates without any form of agreeable evidence around such base rates?

I think the open to close ratio needs to be provided in any such comparison. It would arguably give a better indication of which project is doing a better job at addressing incoming user issues and bug fixes.

Yeah, well, my not-yet-written language has zero segfault issues raised, so it’s clearly superior to both Zig and Rust. I really need to get around to writing it because obviously it’s a much better design.

It's a bad metric, but also Zig didn't migrate all of their issues from GitHub. Run the same count on GitHub and you'll see the full picture

To make a better comparison, you have to add up Zig's issues on GitHub that weren't brought over and abandoned.

That would be Zig's 700 or so Codeberg issues + the 2,700 or so GitHub issues.

Without base rate you're comparing #X in a city vs #Y in a continent and drawing conclusions from that.

It's not even wrong.

You’re literally agreeing that the parent’s argument is bad. I was just applying his logic, and I didn't draw any conclusions.

No. I just think you're taking judge by number of segfaults out of context. That said, I wrote this before the edit.

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