And they tried to hang him for it. I wasn't particularly pleased with some actions he took after he ran off but the government reaction was truly out of hand and forced him into full survival mode. This part of government is full of weird power crazed spooks.

they are very awkward to use in the current STL, they are part of the template definition. Back in the day EASTL did allocators much better but it never became a thing.

This confuses me. In zig null pointers are illegal, and I have yet to run into any case that should be addressed by using pointer arithmetic, that's all taken care of with slices.

Seems like it's just a comment written by someone with little to no experience using zig.

you could fully redesign libc to be modern and toss out the null terminated string concept and use fat pointers and slices. But at that point why not consider moving onto a more modern language with things like explicit type conversions, modern PEG type grammar, etc.

I might buy your argument except that without corporate sponsorship for zig several projects using a very young and unfinished zig exhibit world class performance and utility, apparently without herculean effort.

'const expected: []const u32 = &.{ 123, 67, 89, 99 };' also works.

Unfortunately it makes the libraries difficult (or at least very tedious) to read. I find zig's standard library a very good reference for figuring out to do things in application space, from what I've seen it's been very clear and useful.

I don't think manual memory management is c's problem. a very large number of errors i see in 'c' programs comes from the null terminated string paradigm and also mistakes from raw pointer manipulation (slices/fat pointers help a lot here).

"wrong practice" i always get the impression that rust is an authoratian language that thinks it knows how programming should be done.

I don't think D brought enough new to the table. I had already been coding in c++ for a while and was getting tired of all the little things wrong with c++. While D cleaned up a few things it was already too complex for my taste. And the whole GC thing followed by the D2 fiasco and I lost interest. When dipping my toes into Rust I also got the same vibe from it that I had from D. Too much complexity built in. I guess that made me a sucker for Zig because it is able to combine simplicity, cleverness, clarity and high performance.