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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: 0.288s | 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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1. thayne ◴[05 Jul 25 05:31 UTC] No.44470288[source]▶
Not the original poster, and I don't have very high hopes that these will be revisited, but some things I would like to see revisited are:

- ability to define anonymous functions without having to put it inside an anonymous struct. I get the argument against closures (even if I don't fully agree with it), but not having first class support for anonymous functions feels pretty regressive for a modern language

- have a way to include payload data with errors. Or at the very least, define an idiomatic pattern for handling cases where you have additional data for an error

- allow struct fields to be private

- bring back async support in some form (this one I do have some hope for)