Just because linking to C feels sufficiently "dirty" to the true believers to keep them from doing it. :-)
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This is a great resource! One thing- I think I have a unique perspective to bring to the table. Zig's focus on not panicking on OOM has surfaced the linked list as a crucial tool for areas of code where an implementation *must not fail*. Lots of examples in the std lib event loop
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the core premise of the front page holds: that's a super niche problem (hardening a language's runtime!), and it's not unreasonable to "drop down" to a memory-unsafe system to support it also since this was written, async/await introduced a system for intrusive pointers (Pin)
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I genuinely love this writing style. The unsubtle mocking of C-like langs: “If you're coming from a C-like language, this is exactly the enum you know and love, but on meth.”

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