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zwnow ◴[04 Jul 25 06:46 UTC] No.44461773[source]▶

And this is exactly why you do not use shiny new languages for your projects. Hope tigerbeetle won't have too much trouble with this

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Hamuko ◴[04 Jul 25 07:04 UTC] No.44461858[source]▶

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Are people deploying production code in a language that is still in its 0.x version?

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cenamus ◴[04 Jul 25 07:10 UTC] No.44461901[source]▶

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I mean, what's the difference to the python 2/3 debacle? People were writing/extending in python 2 long after it was declared obsolete

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1. skybrian ◴[04 Jul 25 17:14 UTC] No.44466246[source]▶

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Static types help to find what needs to be fixed. Something like 'go fix' would be useful for fixing them. Apparently something like that is being considered for zig.

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