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Unexpected productivity boost of Rust

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517 points bkolobara | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 15:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.332s | source
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veber-alex ◴[27 Aug 25 16:51 UTC] No.45042068[source]▶
I find the Zig example to be shocking.

It's just so brittle. How can anyone think this is a good idea?

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tialaramex ◴[27 Aug 25 17:54 UTC] No.45042784[source]▶
I assume it's a bug. However because this is an auteur language if you want the bug fixed it will be important to ensure the auteur also thinks it is a bug. If they get it into their head that it's supposed to be like this, they'll double down and regardless of how many people are annoyed they're insist on it.
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1. gwenzek ◴[28 Aug 25 17:20 UTC] No.45054675[source]▶
Andrew actually agrees with the general sentiment. And this will be made into a compile error.

What's happening is that compiler knows the two errors come from disjoint error set, but it promotes them both to anyerror

Details at https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/25046