{"author":"surprisetalk","children":[{"author":"rererereferred","children":[{"author":"spacedcowboy","children":[{"author":"rererereferred","children":[],"created_at":"2026-10-05T14:24:28.000Z","created_at_i":1791210268,"id":49965319,"options":[],"parent_id":49965167,"points":null,"story_id":49964277,"text":"If you are gonna use LLMs to put the code in prose, skip the middleman and just read the code &amp; tests directly, it is actually pretty readable.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-10-05T14:13:43.000Z","created_at_i":1791209623,"id":49965167,"options":[],"parent_id":49964987,"points":null,"story_id":49964277,"text":"Well, to be fair, they could easily have an LLM pass over the existing code as a CI pass, and generate the language documentation for each checkin.<p>But they don&#x27;t like LLM&#x27;s [according to the author, I don&#x27;t actually know or care if it&#x27;s true], so... <i>shrug</i>","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-10-05T13:57:24.000Z","created_at_i":1791208644,"id":49964987,"options":[],"parent_id":49964277,"points":null,"story_id":49964277,"text":"You can&#x27;t RTFM. The language is in development and any manual would get out of date fast. It&#x27;s better use of their limited resources to focus on completing the language, then focus on the manual once the language is not a moving target.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"tadasv","children":[],"created_at":"2026-10-05T15:52:29.000Z","created_at_i":1791215549,"id":49966505,"options":[],"parent_id":49964277,"points":null,"story_id":49964277,"text":"I share the sentiment. I&#x27;ve been programming for ~20 years and I&#x27;ve done a fair share of low level development in c and c++. I like the idea of zig and honestly I want to adopt it, but the language syntax feels so counter intuitive. Maybe I&#x27;m just less patient the older I get.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-10-05T13:00:03.000Z","created_at_i":1791205203,"id":49964277,"options":[],"parent_id":null,"points":5,"story_id":49964277,"text":null,"title":"Fuck Zig (and maybe low-level programming in general?)","type":"story","url":"https://reedybear.bearblog.dev/fuck-zig-and-maybe-low-level-programming-in-general/"}