alt Hacker News"two things are within an order of magnitude, and two other things are within an order of magnitude, and those two groups are three orders of magnitude apart" does sound like two groups to me.
"two things are within an order of magnitude, and two other things are within an order of magnitude, and those two groups are three orders of magnitude apart" does sound like two groups to me.
> those two groups are three orders of magnitude apart
They aren't necessarily, though. Supposing that Zig were "10 issues per MLoC" (with just as much handwaving as the original poster), it would be equidistant from Rust and C. Java may also be more than one order of magnitude away from Rust; we say ~0 but is it 0.01, 0.001, 0.0001...? And why is "1 issue per MLoC" the acceptable metric that delineates what constitutes table-stakes memory-safe language? Because it's a nice, round-sounding number? I think 0 is a nicer, rounder number than 1, so let's call only Java table stakes and condemn all other languages to the garbage bin, tradeoffs be damned. Or would you say your arbitrary delineation point is worth more than mine?