Zig Programming Language & Linters • Andrew Kelley & Jeroen Engels
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The Importance of Flexibility in New Languages
I like to make reading code the easiest thing to do with the language. I see a lot of contemporary new languages, which they don't seem to focus on it too much. Do you have any examples? Oh, you're going to make me burn another project, son. The example I will give will be NIMM. So NIMM's emphasis is on flexibility and power. And so you can do some really impressive things with NIMM macros. You can also implement async await in user land in NIMM,. It's pretty powerful that you can do that. That's a fundamental transformation of the control flow of a function to make it async await. Whereas with
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