A spokesperson for NSF says the rationale for abolishing the divisions and removing their leaders is “to reduce the number of SES [senior executive service] positions in the agency and create new non-executive positions to better align with the needs of the agency.”
Reducing bureaucracy is not the same as cutting science funding.
If you like higher level languages like C#, you are not going to like Zig, except the surface similarity in syntax.
not liking syntax is not enough reason not to use a language. It takes a few days to get over the unfamiliarity in syntax. concepts are much harder to learn.
the buyer should think about the replacement value of the vehicle.
I might spend $1500 on my 12 year old car (which is "only" worth 4200 according to KBB), instead of spending lot more money to get a different used car with unknown issues or a hefty monthly payment.
I am curious to see where Java are C# are making progress towards optional GC.
This specific article talks about using No GC aka "betterC".
D has GC by default; the use of GC is convenient and mainstream as most popular languages show - Java/C#/Python etc. What D gives is the unique ability to do No GC programming for the cases where GC is not desirable. Very few languages offer this capability.
Zig is interesting in this arena, but it approaches the problem from the other angle. It is manual memory management by default, but you can explicitly choose which memory management technique you want to use - at compile time.
eh.. I had a 2016 mazda that I replaced with a 2015 lexus. The mazda's rotary knob based interface is soo much better than the the "mouse" based lexus one.
My mazda had the touchscreen, but I hardly ever used it.
but do all applications need multi-core threading? Languages like Python get around this using multiprocess module, which is not the same as "multi-core" threading, but it is probably good enough for a majority of applications.
REPL based development, Interactive development are also features. Multi-core isn't probably the top most thing on everybody's list of things.
I agree. I was in a dollar general recently in a different city (just killing time) and i think they are actually more appealing to shop than a walmart. (I shop in neither usually).
DG gives an impression of small, local run (which I know they are not) shop with pretty decent service, and walmart doesn't feel like that.
The website has been refreshed. The feature highlights section on the front page gives many examples of the features with code samples.
Even as someone who follows zig closely (from a distance), I was glad to read that front page again to day to refresh my memory about:
* Cross-compiling is a first-class use case
* Zig Build system
Also, IMO Zig has some of the most exciting WASM related stuff going on in my limited experience as an outsider (to WASM). Following Zig's development of WASM capabilities has taught me more things with less confusion.