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Personal blog · kihlander.net/postprogrammingsystems
What could possibly go wrong? on What could possibly go wrong? is a personal blog at kihlander.net about programming and systems. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “A Zig Diary”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for posts giving reasons for disliking the Zig programming language, cited alongside other programmers' objections. The comment only cites the posts and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A Zig Diary2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-09
What Hacker News says?
Muratori, who is a well known C programmer and instructor, has made his dislike of Zig quite clear[1]. Others, like Tsoding (many videos) and Kihlander (doesn't like syntax among other things), have given clear reasons for their dislike of Zig or why it was not their preference[2][3]. Various recognized programmers are not going to go along with, "no downsides and all upsides". Which for any language still in beta,…
Comment linking /post/a-zig-diary/
on “F8 – an 8 bit architecture designed for C and memory efficiency [video]”Submitted Looking at C for better closures in C++ as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swapping Memory and Compiler Optimizations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Zig Diary as a story · 1 points
HN discussion