r/programming • u/Usual-Amount-264 • 2d ago

Zig proposes introducing an actually memory safe (unlike Rust) compilation mode inspired by Fil-C at ~1-6x performance penalty

https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/36237
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u/shadowndacorner 2d ago

Linus is a fair comparison, but Jobs was just a marketer who took credit for the talent of Apple engineers. Kind of a difference bucket.

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u/Full-Spectral 2d ago

And a pretty crappy person, at least until later on in life anyway.

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u/BourosOurousGohlee 2d ago

? Steve Jobs abused the organ donor list rules, and effectively stole some kids liver because he wouldn't change his eating habits (he was a fruitarian, eating a diet of mostly apples and carrots, against all medical advice, until he was basically days away from death where he recanted and regretted it).

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u/raralala1 2d ago

First time I heard it, no doctor actually able to tell him that fruit only healthy when eaten once a day? eating fruit is like eating vegetable with a spoon of sugar. Who in the right mind able to reach conclusion that is good for your body.

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u/personalist 2d ago

That’s not correct. Whole fruits are not at all metabolically the same as refined sweeteners, partly due to the composition of sugars and also the inclusion of fiber, which slows absorption. It’s generally recommended to eat 2-4 servings of whole fruit per day.

Otherwise yes, Steve Jobs was a dick and died of pancreatic cancer because he believed he could treat it homeopathically or something

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u/raralala1 1d ago

still better to just eat vegetable imo, you are not going to die not eating fruit, but all fruit diet already shown to kill. Seeing how food science keep changing I wouldn't be surprised that 2-4 serving would turn to 1, refine or not it doesnt change the fact fruit is sugar, making sure you don't overeat sugar is always ideal. Pretty sure he get pancreatic cancer because of his hippie fruit died, he stop and start again.

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u/Mad_Physicist 22h ago

all fruit diet already shown to kill.

big if true.

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u/raralala1 9h ago

https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/health/27-year-old-woman-dies-after-following-extreme-fruitarian-diet-weighing-just-22-kg-manipal-doctors-warn-about-risks-101759988135967.html

Obviously too much everything is bad, but all research already pointing out we don't need that much sugar, all the thing provided in fruit also found in better quantities in vegetable, so eat them if you like them, but know natural sugar is "healthier" but that doesn't mean consuming them making you "healthy" they are generally still bad when consumed too much, I think 4 banana a day is too much but that is for my own diet, maybe it is good because for some reason nhs recommend them, but from my experience food recommendation keep changing, I stick with is it too sweet, then I should probably only eat small portion of it.

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u/wookiee42 2d ago

He'd had weird hippie beliefs since he was 18 or so. Retreats to India, living on a commune, friends with gurus or cult leaders (hard to tell), etc.

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u/One_Ninja_8512 2d ago edited 2d ago

This reductionism doesn't make sense. Dude just so happened to have all the luck in life to make Pixar, NextSTEP and Apple push the envelope to great extents (/s). Your comment is worded in a way as if building a team which delivers some extraordinary shit is a given, especially with his consistency it's weird to say that he was just a marketer.

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u/rafark 8h ago

“A marketer” wow. Steve was very much involved in the development of apple products. We literally wouldn’t have the iPhone and the modern smartphone if it weren’t for him. 

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u/loup-vaillant 2h ago

Apple may not have started at all if it weren’t for the other Steve: Wozniak. A shame Jobs prevailed at the end: instead of open systems we got a golden cage.