Taking the warts off C, with Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig Software Foundation
The Sourcegraph Podcast
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Generics
Zig is lazy with respect to top declarations. It means that you can use the standard library everywhere in inkernals. No embedded development a, you know, if you need to swap out an alligator or i give us the ability to make zig so much more versatile in all these different use cases. In c ito'd be hard to take tepensy in the standard library in all thes different situations,. And in some cases, like it just wouldn't run properly some of these platforms. You have no hidden control over memory and there's no hidden flow on how data is stored. So for example, though you can manipulate strings in memory in the kernel, that
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