I tried Zig in 2017-2018 span (and as part of research I've read quite a bit of Zig over the years). To me the language had some details not previously tried out: special operators for wrapping ops, error value based error returns and pervasive NPOT types. But overall it felt unnecessarily verbose with what I feel were unnecessary changes to established syntax in standard constructs such as "for" and "while". For this reason I started to contribute to C2 instead.
However, my impression was obviously coloured by being around 45 at the time and I was used to program in many different programming languages. Plus I grew up with BASIC, Pascal and C.
There's going to be quite a different experience for someone coming from Go/JS/Java and venturing into low level programming for the first time!
That is not to say that all of the people being enthusiastic about Zig is coming from those particular languages, but I think that C is considered a scary language for many people, so C alternatives tend to attract people from higher level languages to a higher degree than C itself.
When I eventually started on C3, I incorporated some features from Zig. I ended up removing all of them as I found them to be problematic: untyped literals combined with implicit widening, unsigned error on overflow, special arithmetic operators for wrap, saturation.
However, I am very grateful that Zig explored these designs.
From Odin I ended up including its array programming, but for vectors only. I also adopted Odin's use of distinct types.
But most of the C3 features are GCC C extensions plus ASTEC inspired macros.
I think the confusion was less about the part after the @ not being a major well known service, but not being something that sounds like a company or a service. I think their confusion is that it has my name in it, and people are used to a name going before the @.
Agreed. It's simply philosophically sloppy to suggest that purple, brown, and really any other colour don't exist without qualifying what one means by existing in this context, and why that definition of the word is used.
In this case, it seems the "what" is that for a colour to "exist", it has to be a distinct, isolated frequency of light, and (for some reason) it needs to appear in a logical place in the frequency space in relation to other colours. They don't answer the "why" question, and I think if they tried, they would find it difficult, because it's completely arbitrary and in conflict with reality.
Just because some colours do in fact correspond to frequencies of light, that doesn't mean all colours have to. There's a reason we have the terms primary and secondary colour. Some colours are emergent from mixing other colours together. Does that can't appear in the natural world, being discriminated by sensory systems? No. Does purple cause things to happen? I'm sure you could find myriad examples of this in the natural world.
Ironically, the only thing here that only exists in our brains, is the notion that purple doesn't exist.
Here in Ireland I've never had to wait more than a few hours to see a doctor to get a prescription for an infection. Can be a bit harder at the weekend but still seen the same day
Not to mention this is almost certainly not what will happen in the USA. Trump and the GOP have no interest in reducing wealth inequality, and the vision you have laid out would be immediately labeled "communism"
Trump is leaning on the fact that US consumers are the golden geese of consumers. Which is in fact true. So he will go to the EU and ask them if they would rather sign new currency and trade agreements or lose the top 20% of their buyers. The currency and trade agreements will pretty much be "Let us weaken the dollar, and equalize trading tariffs, ideally at 0%. In return you will get continued military support and preferential future trading terms"
On the surface this actually isn't too terrible. But the problem is that Trump is an idiot and he is the one who has to navigate this.
In NYC you can probably get by with the ~40 miles range of 120V charging, but this doesn't really negate your point about poor charging infrastructure.
The article says this (and pretty much all the other comments here).
It doesn't however mention James Clerk Maxwell who took a break from inventing equations to torture EE students forever to figure this stuff out, including making the first color photograph.
(Yes I know Heaviside actually came up with the equations we use)
We have this thing called the First Amendment. It applies to all people under the jurisdiction of the United States. There’s no exception for “guests.” Criticizing the government is a time-honored American tradition. Throwing people out for it is absolutely vile.
>All three receptors fire. However, the green receptor has much better sensitivity than the red receptor, so violet triggers the strongest response in blue and red.
I'm confused - it sounds like you're saying it's so off-peak for all of them that, even though it's more proximal to blue, it is effectively equally out-of-range for all three - except that the green receptor is more sensitive. But then that would mean it should look more green, rather than more red and blue, no?
I see what you're saying, but even with visual basic you needed to understand the basics of coding to get anywhere. Vibe coding seems to be more about intentionally not understanding things. I just think that, if you can code it yourself, maybe AI saves you some time, if you can't code it yourself, AI gives you a fancy toy that you can't expand or change. And God help you if you make an online service..
To me, this is an excellent argument that merely making healthcare more affordable in the US isn't the answer.
I'd like to posit that the culprit(s) of bad US health could likely be narrowed down by carefully analyzing the differences between (a) 1970 and now; and (b) Americans and Europeans in an exhaustive list of the human body's environmental touchpoints. A few examples:
- food supply differences. For example, European regulation prohibits GMO and a lot of pesticides that are allowed in the US.
- vaccines. How much of the European vaccine schedule's components are not sourced from American suppliers?
- atmosphere. Off-gassing of things in homes and offices, pollution, etc.
- containers. In 1970, none of the food supply was distributed in plastic containers, for example.
while narrowing the list to differences that apply to 90+% of the populations concerned.
I mean, it just seems like a false or unrealistic pretense to me.
For example while a hockey game is a 'game' what about a person making a bet on that game that now loses a bet because of the penalty actions? Or a team loses that would have won because of said penalty and does not go to the world championship. So yea, saying there is no consequences is like rejecting the premise of causality as the game doesn't live in a closed system.
Battery costs are continually declining. If you buy an EV today, and then if you need to replace the battery in 15 years, because you put 300,000 miles on it, it won't break the bank.
However, my impression was obviously coloured by being around 45 at the time and I was used to program in many different programming languages. Plus I grew up with BASIC, Pascal and C.
There's going to be quite a different experience for someone coming from Go/JS/Java and venturing into low level programming for the first time!
That is not to say that all of the people being enthusiastic about Zig is coming from those particular languages, but I think that C is considered a scary language for many people, so C alternatives tend to attract people from higher level languages to a higher degree than C itself.
When I eventually started on C3, I incorporated some features from Zig. I ended up removing all of them as I found them to be problematic: untyped literals combined with implicit widening, unsigned error on overflow, special arithmetic operators for wrap, saturation.
However, I am very grateful that Zig explored these designs.
From Odin I ended up including its array programming, but for vectors only. I also adopted Odin's use of distinct types.
But most of the C3 features are GCC C extensions plus ASTEC inspired macros.