So ... I was looking at "Zig" again to see where it's headed. And boy does this thing seem Rust-ified these days. Building "hello world" takes forever (but displays a fun tree-shaped animation while it's happening, I guess to distract me from just how long it takes?) and then the executable is >2 MB. I am just too old for this shit! I don't want to futz with Golang because fuck Google, but honestly, what else is there? Nothing is left! There are language monsters with supposedly awesome implementations that do 55,312 things I probably don't want them to do just to compile "hello world" and then there's C. Good old C. Trusty C. Builds fast and generates mostly just the code I want it to generate C. Fuck! Honestly, this whole "modern languages" thing... 🤢 🤮 Someone give me a decent UNIX-ified Oberon compiler for crying out loud.
@alexshendi
I am not a Pascal family guy, so why pick a minimally-developed Oberon compiler over GCC's built-in support for Modula-2? Or Ada instead, actually, because it has been useful in many domains for long and was good enough to spawn a solid hardware design language (VHDL).
@phf
#VHDL #Ada
