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Open-source Zig book

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692 points rudedogg | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 19:44 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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poly2it ◴[17 Nov 25 06:14 UTC] No.45951222[source]▶
> Learning Zig is not just about adding a language to your resume. It is about fundamentally changing how you think about software.

I'm not sure what they expect, but to me Zig looks very much like C with a modern standard lib and slightly different syntax. This isn't groundbreaking, not a thought paradigm which should be that novel to most system engineers like for example OCaml could be. Stuff like this alienates people who want a technical justification for the use of a language.

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wavemode ◴[17 Nov 25 06:35 UTC] No.45951302[source]▶
Much of the book's copy appears to have been written by AI (despite the foreword statement that none of it was), which explains the hokey overenthusiasm and exaggerations.
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1. keybored ◴[17 Nov 25 10:42 UTC] No.45952435[source]▶
As we know AI is at least as smart as the average human. It knows the Zeitgeist and thus adds “No AI used” in order to boost “credibility”. :) (“credibility” since AI is at least as smart the average human, for us in the know.)