[lewdwig]

A language which is not 1.0, and has repeatedly changed its IO implementation in a non-backwards-compatible way is certainly a courageous choice for production code.

[dnautics]

So, I'm noodling around with writing a borrow checker for zig, and you don't get to appreciate this working with zig on a day to day level, but the internals of how the zig compiler works are AMAZING. Also, the io refactor will (I think) let me implement aliasing checking (alias xor mutable).

[ivanjermakov]

In my experience, migrating small-scale projects takes from minutes to single digit hours.

Standard library is changing. The core language semantics - not so much. You can update from std.ArrayListUnmanaged to std.array_list.Aligned with to greps.

[bluecalm]

Right? People must really like the design choices in Zig to do that instead of choosing another language. It's very interesting just because of that.

[Philpax]

It's certainly not a choice I would have made, but there's sufficient precedent for it now (TigerBeetle, Ghostty, etc) that I can understand it.

[hu3]

also Bun

[steeve]

the upside is absolutely worth it