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Show HN: Zedis – A Redis clone I'm writing in Zig

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135 points barddoo | 2 comments | 19 Sep 25 21:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Writing Redis from scratch in Zig.
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tcfhgj ◴[19 Sep 25 23:32 UTC] No.45308065[source]▶
So riiR is now riiZ? ;)
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nine_k ◴[20 Sep 25 01:03 UTC] No.45308745[source]▶
"Rewrite it away from C (or C++)". Whether you choose Rust, Zig, Ada, D, Nim, even Pascal, it's likely going to become more secure. It will be supported on fewer platforms though, but still should run fine under Linux, macOS, Windows, *BSD, on x64, Arm64, and likely RISC-V, too.
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maleldil ◴[20 Sep 25 01:58 UTC] No.45309389[source]▶
Zig isn't memory safe, though. It's safer than C or C++, but not much.
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1. throwawaymaths ◴[20 Sep 25 02:55 UTC] No.45309844[source]▶
checked array bounds is memory safety.
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2. lyu07282 ◴[20 Sep 25 06:38 UTC] No.45311001[source]▶
Runtime bounds checking, but only in Debug/ReleaseSafe builds, besides there are many other types of memory safety issues left unaddressed.