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dinglejungle··on The Zig Programming Language
FYI, the main page of ziglang.org was completely overhauled, which is why this was submitted.

Here it is from a few days ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20190430121340/https://ziglang.o...

dinglejungle··on The Zig Programming Language
From the Documentation page[1]:

> Robust - behavior is correct even for edge cases such as out of memory.

> Optimal - write programs the best way they can behave and perform.

> Maintainable - precisely communicate intent to the compiler and other programmers. The language imposes a low overhead to reading code and is resilient to changing requirements and environments.

[1] https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/

dinglejungle··on Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki
> you naturally want to look a woman in the eyes if you are genuinely attracted to her, it's hard to resist.

How are you certain this is universally true? Seems like a pretty clear case of the typical minds fallacy. For people that don't 'naturally' maintain eye contact with women they are attracted to, 'simulating' that behavior does not imply that any feelings are being simulated.

dinglejungle··on Women: Learn to Program This Summer
> Are women not as smart as men when it comes to tech? Or are there barriers to entry for women?

Those are not the only options.

dinglejungle··on On the death of my family's dairy farm
Note that a byproduct of ethanol production is distillers grains[1] which are used as an animal feed. Also worth noting that the percentage of corn used for direct human consumption has stayed at around 10-20% before, during, and after the ramp up in ethanol production:

Ethanol + animal feed chart: https://i.imgur.com/1QqPTje.png

Ethanol production chart: https://i.imgur.com/3wwzkIi.png

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillers_grains

dinglejungle··on RIP Culture War Thread
It's multiple years of weekly threads: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/search?q=flair%3ACul...
dinglejungle··on Show HN: Nanosecond C message logger
You seemed to have linked to the C++ version only.

The C repo: https://github.com/RafaGago/mini-async-log-c

dinglejungle··on Essential C (2003) [pdf]
(you replied to the creator of Zig, fyi)
dinglejungle··on Surviving Jonestown
I recommend listening to the audio recording of the incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peoples_Temple_Cult_Death...

It's disturbing, but it gives the best insight into the mindset of those involved.

dinglejungle··on Surviving Jonestown
There's an audio recording of the incident from nearly start to finish[1]. If you listen to it, it's pretty clear people were aware of what was happening and only a minority were against it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peoples_Temple_Cult_Death...

dinglejungle··on Warp – self-contained, single binary applications
Here's one for Lua: https://github.com/ers35/luastatic
dinglejungle··on Massacring C Pointers
Might be totally wrong, but it's possible that MSVC++ programmers typically knowing 'C with classes' might come from the gaming world, as that's a fairly accurate description of some very popular game engines (Valve's Source engine[1] being the one I'm most familiar with, where e.g. std::string is unused in favor of char/wchar arrays).

[1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013 (originally released in 2004)

dinglejungle··on The Internet Is Saving Culture, Not Killing It
https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204606295-What...
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