> Do you plan on giving Zig a try? (They seem to be doing a lot right.)
All this Zig spam is getting very tiring.
All this Zig spam is getting very tiring.
Even all that aside, comparing and contrasting contemporaries in a similar space is natural. That's just, like, scholarship, you know? Imagine someone who's defending their thesis responding to a question about alternatives to their research by getting into a big huff about it. That'd be pretty silly, right?
And the comments about "PL tribalism" are a little odd, then, since the most tribalistic behavior we have evidence for in this thread is someone reacting exactly like this. As a fan of Walter's contributions, including D, in the past I've gone so far as to put a non-trivial amount of effort into polishing the articles on D, Walter, and Digital Mars on Wikipedia. Meanwhile, I've never even written a Zig program, dude; if there's a tribe I belong to, it's not Zig.
It is Zig spam, not because of the discussion or the question or the topic of the time of day. It's Zig spam because it's yet another Zig post among the barrage of Zig posts desperately shoe-horning offtopic gratuitous references to Zig. It's tiring and adds nothing to any discussion.
If you feel that strongly about the need to promote Zig, submit discussions. Please don't spam each and any top submission with these gratuitous references.
What I responded to was a comment from D's own creator who himself directly mentioned Zig. I didn't shoe-horn shit. I've been waiting a long time for a hit on Corncob TV.
If you're upset about Zig mentioned here, your quarrel is not with me, the person who spent over half the words in their comment bringing it back to the original topic by linking to a useful talk; your quarrel is with, if anyone, the original questioner who got Walter to comment on Zig. (And even then, your ire would be tenuous at best, for the reasons already mentioned.) I also cannot "feel that strongly about the need to promote Zig"—because I am not promoting Zig. As I have already said, D is closer to my tribe than Zig is.
It's not. It's a discussion about "the C compiler built into the Digital Mars D compiler".
Please stop with all the Zig spam.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33331549
I don't mind languages getting hyped but seeing posts every week on the front page of HN about an unstable esoteric language with 0 adoption - yes, it's getting tiring.
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33337381 (posted from a 12-year-old account)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33333904 (posted from a 2-year-old account)
simplotek is most probably a legitimate user annoyed by Zig news. I don't agree with their point, for what it's worth, but at least it's an opinion shared earnestly, unlike the troll.
Not wanting to see gratuitous self-promoting spam degrading the signal/noise ratio of an otherwise interesting discussion is hardly petulance. Replace any Zig reference shoe-horned into this discussion with, say, Java, and see if you have any point.