alt Hacker NewsIt's not hallucination, it's a basic extrapolation. "Bun has had an extremely high amount of crashes/memory bugs due to them using Zig" is the same statement as "using Zig resulted in Bun having an extremely high amount of crashes/memory bugs". It is then natural to ask whether their position is "using Zig results in an extremely high amount of crashes/bugs" in general.
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skybrian • yesterday at 7:37 PM
It's generalizing from Bun (which might be especially tricky code) to other software that might not have the similar issues. There are lots of different kinds of software.
afdbcreid • yesterday at 9:23 PM
Even assuming that's a correct interpretation, does "using C/C++ results in having an extremely high amount of crashes/memory bugs" not true?
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That's a hell of a lot more than "basic extrapolation." You're misrepresenting the original claim to fight against one that's trivially easy to dispute. "Bun has had an extremely high amount of crashes/memory bugs due to them using Zig" (which unlike Rust, doesn't prevent you from writing them) is a completely different statement than your "using Zig results in an extremely high amount of crashes/bugs." Implying that such a generalization was even on the table is insulting.
Yes, obviously you can write high-quality software in Zig. But does Zig categorically reject the kind of bugs Bun was suffering from? Rust does.