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		mhh__ on Jan 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Zig when there is already C++, D, and Rust? Exceptions are the big sticking point at the moment, true, but you don't have to allocate them with the GC. Rust and C++ don't have associative arrays in the language to begin with, so if you write C++ in D you won't allocate.

Kranar on Jan 16, 2021 [–]

I never mentioned garbage collector or associative arrays, I mentioned dynamic memory, closures, and exceptions.

mhh__ on Jan 16, 2021 | [–]

Well I hoped dynamic memory was obvious given the D GC is written entirely in D and it has to get memory from somewhere

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