Zig v0.17.0

Would recommend checking out the Zig state of the (tagged) union as well.

https://youtu.be/zwi5b5xSsKA?is=PTjJJjSnVMdRuZag

It may surprise some people here to see that Andrew is warming up to using LLMs to discover bugs (inspired by results from SQLlite) and considers it a tool on the path to getting to bug free software.

I'm always impressed by Zig's targets support. I'm starting to think that it might be the only language that competes with C on this regard.

I'm looking forward to see what the new build integration can unlock on the tooling side.

What I'm looking for the most for the next release(s):

- New stackless coroutine IO implementation

- First class fuzzer tooling

How is Zig doing as a project? I remember they took a hard line against AI

Any change to the AI policy?

Although I understand that upgrading LLVM version is a lot of work, it's a bit frustating that loop vectorization is still disabled.

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Just don't be surprised if the project BFDL talks shit about you or your company later.

(Still a good language though, credit where credit is due.)

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