Why is Zig so cool?(nilostolte.github.io)
529 points by vitalnodo | 467 comments
An article by Nilo Stolte presenting the Zig programming language's appealing features, such as its compiler that compiles C and cross-compiles.
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Things Zig comptime won't do(matklad.github.io)
441 points by JadedBlueEyes | 180 comments
A blog post by matklad explaining the deliberate restrictions of Zig's comptime feature, such as no host leakage, and how it stays expressive despite them.
JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers(linebender.org)
102 points by dmit | 22 comments
Raph Levien's Linebender blog post describing a JIT technique for fast proportional bitmap text rendering on the RP2350 microcontroller in his vic-2350 project.
JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers(linebender.org)
5 points by raphlinus | 1 comments
Raph Levien's Linebender blog post describing a JIT technique for fast proportional bitmap text rendering on the RP2350 microcontroller for his vic-2350 project.
C23: A Slightly Better C(lemire.me)
170 points by mfiguiere | 129 comments
Apple capped engineers at a $200 daily AI budget(stork.ai)
60 points by GloVin | 76 comments
A Stork AI daily newsletter issue led by a report that Apple cut some engineers' daily AI spending cap to $200, plus other AI news items.
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Zig is hard but worth it(ratfactor.com)
352 points by signa11 | 259 comments
A personal blog essay by Ratfactor arguing that the Zig programming language is hard to learn but worth the effort, illustrated with a cartoon.
It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans(erikbern.com)
429 points by imartin2k | 131 comments
Erik Bernhardsson's blog post arguing that writing code for humans, such as libraries, APIs and tools other developers use, is harder than writing code for computers.
The future of software development is software developers(codemanship.wordpress.com)
376 points by cdrnsf | 471 comments
A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.
Software engineers hate code(dancowell.com)
323 points by dfcowell | 185 comments
A blog post by Dan Cowell arguing that software engineers dislike code and prefer writing less of it.
We have traits at home(axelmagn.com)
40 points by Ygg2 | 14 comments
A blog post proposing a convention for compile-time Traits in Zig as comptime structs of functions, compared with interfaces/vtables and comptime duck typing.
Why LLMs can't really build software(zed.dev)
321 points by srid | 196 comments
A Zed blog post by Conrad Irwin arguing that LLMs cannot really build software, drawing on his experience of what effective software engineers do.