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Zig breaking change – Initial Writergate

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228 points Retro_Dev | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 04:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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barelysapient ◴[04 Jul 25 15:03 UTC] No.44465168[source]▶
A big change like this makes me hopeful Zig may revisit and improve other design choices in the future.
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bbkane ◴[04 Jul 25 16:54 UTC] No.44466074[source]▶
Could you elaborate on the choices you'd like revisited?
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90s_dev ◴[04 Jul 25 17:16 UTC] No.44466265[source]▶
Unused variables stops all further compilation, so that even future errors can't be seen until the variable is used.
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1. mlugg ◴[04 Jul 25 22:41 UTC] No.44468527[source]▶
This is simply not true. See https://zigbin.io/f57b94/run.

(That link seems to show the "unused local variable" error line twice for me; that's some kind of bug with this zigbin service and does not reproduce when running the Zig compiler normally.)