Re: [9fans] Zig cutting back support for Plan 9

[David Leimbach via 9fans]

Simple can be nice. I happen to like languages with a bit more expressive type systems. Sum types without unions is not something I’ve tried to do before. (Enum tag in a structure with a union being the common way to do it in C though it’s a bit more manual than other languages) And such unions can be nice when a function might fail and you want to bake the “failures” into the same result as a success. In the end these are just patterns though. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2025, at 5:57 AM, Alyssa M via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> wrote:  I'm afraid I still use C89. I've never found a language I like better. It has everything I need and my compiler usually produces the assembler I would have written anyway, and much more quickly. The (cast) operator is my favourite feature. I never bothered to implement typedefs, unions, or gotos, though: no language is perfect and I think they were not such good ideas. 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink